On Writers And Writing Beyond

On Writers and Writing brings together Gardners essays on literature for the first time. In piece after piece he explains how he separates novelistic wheat from chaff, genuine fiction from fakery. . All my life, John Gardner wrote weeks before his death in a motorcycle accident, Ive lived flat-out. As a motorcycle racer, chemist, writer I was never cautious. Gardners evaluations of his fellow writers are equally flat-out: often warm, occasionally shocking, always full of passion and insight. On Writers and Writing brings together Gardners essays on literature for the first time. In piece after piece he explains how he separates novelistic wheat from chaff, genuine fiction from fakery. A consummate teacher, Gardner examines contemporary writersBellow, Nabokov, Roth, Cheever, Woiwode, Oates, Updike, and other major authorswith the same critical but generous eye with which he graded his students writing assignments. In other essays Gardner examines influential storytelling that ranges from King Arthur to Walt Disney. Here we see the skill of some of Americas greatest writers laid bare by a fellow craftsman, making On Writers and Writing essential reading for anyone interested in American literature.

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Introduction by Charles Johnson; Bartleby: Art and Social Commitment; An Invective Against Mere Fiction; More Smog from the Dark Satanic Mills; Witchcraft in Bullet Park, by John Cheever; Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll; The Breast, by Phillip Roth; The Way We Write Now; Saint Walt; The Adventurer, by Paul Zweig; Beyond the Bedroom Wall, by Larry Woiwode; Amber (Get) Waves (Your) of (Plastic) Grain (Uncle Sam); JR, by William Gaddis; The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, by John Steinbeck; Lancelot, by Walker Percy; Falconer, by John Cheever; The Castle of Crossed Destinies, by Italo Calvino; Daniel Martin, by John Fowles; The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkein; The Stories of John Cheever; Dublins Lives, by Bernard Malmud; Sophies Choice, by William Styron; A Writers View of Contemporary American Fiction; Bellefleur, by Joyce Carol Oates; Italian Folktales, by Italo Calvino; Fiction in MSS; What Writers Do; Cartoons; Julius Caesar and the Werewolf; General Plan for The Sunlight Dialogues

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