For two weeks every year, literary figures from throughout the
country gather in rural Sewanee, Tennessee, to lead the Sewanee
Writers' Conference, a series of workshops and colloquia aimed at
cultivating the craft of writing. Gleaned from the first ten
conferences, the "craft" lectures collected in Sewanee Writers on
Writing offer a range of perspectives on writing as practiced by
various playwrights, poets, and fiction writers whose gifts have
made the Sewanee conference a mecca for developing talent.
The essays offer a banquet of topics that will whet the appetite
of all authors, professional and amateur. Russell Banks ponders the
role of research in the constitutive power of the imagination, John
Casey considers simultaneity in art, and Ellen Douglas describes
how a writer confronts the changing shape of memory. Horton Foote
offers his perspective on the collaborative spirit of the theater,
and Ernest Gaines explains why his subject matter must always
remain the people of Louisiana. Anthony Hecht responds to W. H.
Auden, revealing the ways both poets pair talent with subject, and
John Hollander explores the delicate subtleties of Robert Frost's
figurative thought.
Diane Johnson offers a witty and frank answer to the question
all writers face at one time or another: "Write what?" Donald
Justice expounds on the virtues of obscurity in poetry, and Romulus
Linney offers practical guidelines for using dramatic action to
revise a play. In her examination of Nabokov's Bend Sinister, Alice
McDermott demonstrates that fiction writers are bound by no rules
other than "do whatever you can get away with". Marsha Norman
provides a witty list of the dos and don'ts playwriting, and
FrancineProse stresses the importance of detail to a story's
credibility. Finally, volume editor Wyatt Prunty discusses the
figure of vacancy in the stories of Flannery O'Connor and Peter
Taylor.
Together, these wise and wised-up essays offers a treasure trove
of insight on the art of writing. Creative writers and scholars
alike will benefit from the enthusiastic support and astute advice
of these masters of the written word.
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