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Writers talking
By John Metcalf, Claire Wilkshire. 2003
Includes interviews with and commentaries from eight Canadian writers. Listen in to Terry Griggs on where stories come from, Michael…
Winter on writing Newfoundland, and K.D. Miller on being 'an actor who writes'. Also features short stories by these authors. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2003.The notebooks: interviews and new fiction from contemporary authors
By Michelle Berry, Natalee Caple. 2002
An anthology of interviews and unpublished work from 17 of Canada's finest younger authors. The writers include Esta Spalding and…
Michael Winter to Derek McCormack, Steven Heighton, and Eden Robinson. Each writer has provided not only a manuscript page facsimile but also a previously unpublished piece of fiction or poetry along with their interview. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2002.An anthology of the works of American expatriate author Paul Bowles (1910-1999). Includes The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (1950),…
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (1962), Things Gone and Things Still Here (1977), Midnight Mass (1981), and more. Edited by Daniel Halpern. Some strong language. 2002Grit lit: a rough South reader
By Tom Franklin, Brian Carpenter. 2012
Collection of twenty-eight previously published works, memoirs and fiction, that showcase life in the American South--without romanticism. In an excerpt…
from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, Harry Crews reminisces about his Georgia birthplace. In Pinckney Benedict's "Pit" a dog fight ends in murder. Violence and strong language. 2012New Orleans, mon amour: twenty years of writings from the city
By Andrei Codrescu. 2006
Essays from a Romanian-born National Public Radio commentator about his adopted city of New Orleans. Includes some pieces written after…
Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Describes the Big Easy and its inhabitants, food, cemeteries, eccentrics, neighborhoods, Mardi Gras, and crime. 2006The Sleeper wakes: Harlem renaissance stories by women
By Marcy Knopf-Newman. 1993
Twenty-eight stories written in the 1920s and 1930s by fourteen African American women. Most were originally published in magazines and…
chronicle the struggles of race, gender, and poverty. In the title piece, a woman passes for white until her husband's bigotry breaks her silence. Violence and strong language. 1993