Women Writer's at Work (Revised)

Jacket Description/Flap: Sixteen of the world's great women writers speak about their work, their colleagues, and their lives. For More Than Forty Years, the acclaimed Paris Review interviews have been collected in the Writers at Work series. The Modern Library relaunches the series with the first of its specialized collections -- interviews with sixteen women novelists, poets, and playwrights, all offering rich commentary on the art of writing and on the opportunities and challenges a woman writer faces in contemporary society. Review Quotes: "The editors and interviewers of the Writers at Work series have become curators of live genius, marvelous literary taxidermists who have discovered a way to mount the great minds of their day without the usual killing and stuffing, to preserve them for all time. Surely this is now one of the single most persistent acts of cultural conservation in the history of the world, and one of our great national resources."-- Joe David Bellamy, Writing at the End of the Millennium"Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review."-- William Kennedy"It is a safe bet that thirty and even three hundred years from now these conversations will be invaluable to students of twentieth-century literature."-- TimePublisher Marketing: In interviews, such authors as Marianne Moore, Dorothy Parker, P. L. Travers, Simone de Beauvoir, Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Bishop, Maya Angelou, Anne Sexton, Toni Morrison, and Joyce Carol Oates discuss their writing. Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 04/13/1998 pg. 65 (EAN 9780679771296, Paperback)

Kirkus Reviews 05/01/1998 pg. 649 (EAN 9780679771296, Paperback)

Library Journal 05/15/1998 pg. 86 (EAN 9780679771296, Paperback)

Booklist 06/15/1998 pg. 1709 (EAN 9780679771296, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 527 (EAN 9780679771296, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2004 pg. 564 (EAN 9780679771296, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1993 pg. 567 (EAN 9780140117905, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Paris Review The Paris Review has published the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, Michael Chabon, and Jack Kerouac, among many others. They celebrated their fiftieth anniversary in 2003. Contributor Bio:  Plimpton, George GEORGE PLIMPTON, the originator of "participatory journalism," is the founder and editor of the renowned literary magazine "The Paris Review." His books include "Paper Lion "(page TK), "The Bogey Man "(page TK), "Open Net" (page TK), "Shadow Box" (page TK), and "Mad Ducks and Bears" (page TK). He lives in New York City. Contributor Bio:  Hardwick, Elizabeth Elizabeth Hardwick is the author of many books and essays, including "Herman Melville" (Penguin Lives), "Sleepless Nights," and "American Fictions," available as a Modern Library paperback. She lives in New York City.