The Best Writing on Writing - Volume 2

by Jack Heffron (Editor)

The page / Margaret Atwood --
Some notes on the art of lying / Alan Broughton --
Nine antirules of journalism / Roger Rosenblatt --
Degenerates / Kathleen Norris --
A book in search of a buzz : the marketing of a first novel / Michael Norman --
Paper trials / Calvin Trillin --
Anywhere but Kansas / William H. Gass --
Butch Cassidy and the Nazi dentist / William Goldman --
My life is mine, it is not David Leavitt's / Stephen Spender --
The closest work / Lee Upton --
One song, start to finish: a music lesson / Annette Grant. What we write about when we write about love / Nandy Willard --
A culture of biography / Justin Kaplan --
The writing of "Mint leaves at Yaddo" / Lyn Lifshin --
Dear Reviewer ... / David Carkeet --
Dysfunctional narratives or "Mistakes were made" / Charles Baxter --
Writers have had it up to here: the latest on the authors strike / Dan Greenburg --
Believing in literature / Dorothy Allison --
"JCO" and I / Joyce Carol Oates --
Realism and other illusions / Thomas E. Kennedy --
Conan the grammarian / Richard Lederer --
Foreign states of mind / Linda Simon --
Menial labor and the muse / Maxine Kumin

Genres: Writing

224 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1995