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From: Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable Writers[(interview date 1998) In the following interview, Ford discusses his attention to language, his character development and writing process, the presence of autobiographical elements in his works, and the controversial...
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From: Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable Writers[(interview date spring 1993) In the following interview, which took place in 1993, Dubus discusses the contrast between men and women in his stories, the act of writing as a process of discovery, and the influence of...
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From: Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable Writers[(interview date 1990) In the following interview, which took place in 1990, Mason discusses the incorporation of popular culture into her work, her use of past and present tense, and the compilation of her short story...
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From: Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable Writers[(interview date 1998) In the following interview, originally published in 1991 in Contemporary Literature, Lyons and Oliver question Mason about influences on her writing style and her thoughts on pop culture, the...
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From: Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable Writers[(interview date 1998) In the following interview, Phillips discusses her motivations for writing and her early love of literature.] Jayne Anne Phillips began her writing career as a poet and published two books of...
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From: TSE Tulane Studies in English[In the following essay, Lyons examines The Rise of David Levinsky's broader impact as a novel of modern alienation.] Those who have acclaimed Abraham Cahan's last novel, The Rise of David Levinsky, as a great...
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From: Studies in Short FictionSchwartz's fictional aims are suggested in his criticism of other fiction writers. This fictional “credo” is clearest in “John Dos Passos and the Whole Truth,” a review of U.S.A. which goes beyond its topical subject to...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date summer 1977) Arguing in the following essay that much of Schwartz's short fiction deserves more critical attention than it has received, Lyons explains that the short stories in The World Is a Wedding are...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(review date 1987) In the following positive review of Bluebeard's Egg, Lyons asserts that the "stories have many virtues and sources of interest, including the revelations about Atwood's biography, the exploration of...
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From:Contemporary Literature (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAugust Wilson was born in Pittsburgh in 1945 to a German father and a black mother. His mother raised him after his father abandoned the family. He quit school at fifteen, but became interested in reading about black...
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From: Studies in American Jewish Literature[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Lyons offers a feminist reading of several of Malamud's short stories.] Malamud, like so many American Fiction writers, was a great short story writer and a good novelist....
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From: Contemporary Literature[(interview date spring 1990) In the following interview, Wolff discusses the role of truth and self-invention in his work, the connections between his stories in his first two short fiction collections, and the...
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From: Literary Review[(interview date 7 September 1996) In the following interview, which took place on September 7, 1996, Hwang muses on his early rise to fame, details the elements of playwriting that he focuses on, provides his view on...
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From: The Muse Upon My Shoulder: Discussions of the Creative Process[(interview date 1997) In the following interview, which took place in 1997, Henley addresses the connection between her work and that of Anton Chekhov, the influence of southern oral tradition on her plays, and the...
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From: The Literary Review[In the following excerpt from an interview, Berriault discusses such subjects as how she became a writer, contemporary American fiction, her writing style, and the major themes in her works.] [Bonnie Lyons and Bill...
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From: Studies in American Jewish Literature[(essay date 1986) In the following essay, Lyons argues that while Judaism shapes Olsen's work, her writing is most influenced by her experiences as a woman.] That Tillie Olsen's work is radically perfectibilistic in...