Larry Woiwode was a Guggenheim and Lannan Fellow, recipient of the William Faulkner Foundation Award and John DosPassos Prize, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Book Critics Circle Award, and has received the Medal of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters “for distinction in the art of the short story.” His work has been featured in publications such as The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Books & Culture, and The Atlantic. He was Poet Laureate of North Dakota, Writer-in-Residence at Jamestown College, and author of Words Made Fresh and Words for Readers and Writers.

• Part 1: Uses of Words1.  ABCs That Tend to Family Unity2.  Readers’ Literary Guide to Litigation3.  The Worded Flood, Rural to Academy4.  Autobiography, Biography, Fiction, and Fact5.  Using Words, a Continual Spiritual Exercise6.  Examining the Writer’s Image with IMAGE7.  Pooling Metaphors: On Words OverflowingPart 2: Users of Words8.  A Fifty-Year Walk with Right Words9.  Getting Words Plain Right to Publish10. Tolstoy’s Words March Right to Truth11. Nabokov’s Words Not Fading to Nothing12. Exchanging Words: Aural Northern Lights13. With Inside’s Words inside SUNY Academy14. Words at the Last from a Martyr Who LivesPart 3: Realms of Users15. A State Laureate’s Graduation Address16. A Concern for the State of Indian Affairs17. A View of the Ethics Related to Writing18. A Turn in Aesthetics as a Century Turns19. A Final Meeting at the Algonquin Hotel20. A View on Writing from Another Country21. A Writer’s Feel of Internal Bleeding, A to ZAbout the Essays

Larry Woiwode was a Guggenheim and Lannan Fellow, recipient of the William Faulkner Foundation Award and John DosPassos Prize, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Book Critics Circle Award, and has received the Medal of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters “for distinction in the art of the short story.” His work has been featured in publications such as The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Books & Culture, and The Atlantic. He was Poet Laureate of North Dakota, Writer-in-Residence at Jamestown College, and author of Words Made Fresh and Words for Readers and Writers.

• Part 1: Uses of Words1.  ABCs That Tend to Family Unity2.  Readers’ Literary Guide to Litigation3.  The Worded Flood, Rural to Academy4.  Autobiography, Biography, Fiction, and Fact5.  Using Words, a Continual Spiritual Exercise6.  Examining the Writer’s Image with IMAGE7.  Pooling Metaphors: On Words OverflowingPart 2: Users of Words8.  A Fifty-Year Walk with Right Words9.  Getting Words Plain Right to Publish10. Tolstoy’s Words March Right to Truth11. Nabokov’s Words Not Fading to Nothing12. Exchanging Words: Aural Northern Lights13. With Inside’s Words inside SUNY Academy14. Words at the Last from a Martyr Who LivesPart 3: Realms of Users15. A State Laureate’s Graduation Address16. A Concern for the State of Indian Affairs17. A View of the Ethics Related to Writing18. A Turn in Aesthetics as a Century Turns19. A Final Meeting at the Algonquin Hotel20. A View on Writing from Another Country21. A Writer’s Feel of Internal Bleeding, A to ZAbout the Essays