On Writers and Writing 9781453203545, 1453203540

John Gardner's essential collection encompassing the fundamentals of fiction writing In this posthumously published

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On Writers and Writing
 9781453203545, 1453203540

Table of contents :
Cover Page
Title Page
Table of Contents
"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 Philip 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 CalvinoDaniel Martin, by John Fowles
The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Stories of John Cbeever
Dubin''s Lives, by Bernard Malamud
Sophie''s Choice, by William Styron
A Writer''s View of Contemporary American Fiction
Bellefleur, by Joyce Carol Oates
Italian Folktales, edited by Italo Calvino
Fiction in MSS
What Writers Do
Cartoons
Julius Caesar and the Werewolf
General Plan for The Sunlight Dialogues
A Biography of John Gardner
Copyright Page.

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