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On Writing Short Stories by Francine Prose; Tom Bailey; Joyce Carol Oates; Frank Conroy; Andre Dubus; Robert Coles; C. Michael Curtis; Guy de Maupassant; Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; Ernest Hemingway; Tillie Olsen; William Faulkner; John Steinbeck; Flannery O'Connor; James Baldwin; Cynthia Ozick; John Updike; Raymond Carver; Louise Erdrich is a reference work available to read on EtoBox.
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On Writing Short Stories is a unique collection of original essays by seven professional writers. It is the only text of its kind to offer writing advice from such authors, editors, and instructors as Francine Prose, Joyce Carol Oates, Frank Conroy, Andre Dubus, Robert Coles, Tom Bailey, and C. Michael Curtis, with a foreword by Tobias Wolff. These experts give voice--voices--to a dialogue about the art and craft of writing short stories. Respecting writers' autonomy, On Writing Short Stories does not offer a rigidly systematic apparatus for learning to write short stories. Instead it asks what makes a short story, analyzes various aspects of craft, discusses process and revision, and also pauses to wonder why people write short stories at all. It considers the importance of reading and of peer critique in workshops as integral components of the learning process and offers advice on how to get short stories published. Ideal for courses and workshops in creative writing, On Writing Short Stories also includes an engaging selection of eighteen short stories, both classic and contemporary, for discussion and analysis. These stories stretch the limits of narrative fiction; reading them
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- Author
- Francine Prose; Tom Bailey; Joyce Carol Oates; Frank Conroy; Andre Dubus; Robert Coles; C. Michael Curtis; Guy de Maupassant; Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; Ernest Hemingway; Tillie Olsen; William Faulkner; John Steinbeck; Flannery O'Connor; James Baldwin; Cynthia Ozick; John Updike; Raymond Carver; Louise Erdrich
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780195122725
- Category
- reference
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Technology
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (93 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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