Sailing the Inland Sea
On Writing, Literature, and Land
Published on 21. February 2007
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-253-34867-8 (ISBN)
Description
Calling on the image of the Midwest's vanished inland sea, Susan Neville has written a compelling collection of essays that ponder writing and the "landlocked imagination." The essays range from interviews with Indiana writers Kurt Vonnegut, Scott Sanders, Marguerite Young, and others, to discussions on techniques grounded in a Midwestern sensibility. As director of Butler University's Visiting Writers Series, Neville has had the rare opportunity to converse with such literary giants as Salman Rushdie, Ray Bradbury, and Toni Morrison, and some of those exchanges have been incorporated into this exciting new collection.
Reviews / Votes
"What makes this book one that I would certainly put on my reading list is that Neville explores writing--and the study of writing--in interesting and tangible ways." Sue William Silverman, author of Because I Remember TerrorMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
459 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-34867-8 (9780253348678)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1. On the Banks of Lost River; 2. Where the Landscape Moved Like Waves: An Interview with Marguerite Young; 3. River of Spirit: An Interview with Dan Wakefield; 4. Sacred Space in Ordinary Time; 5. Quaker Zen: On Jessamyn West's Friendly Persuasion; 6. Vonnegut: An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut; 7. Free Singers/Be: On Etheridge Knight; 8. On Wildness and Domesticity: An Interview with Scott Russell Sanders; 9. The Gospel According to Lish; 10. Imagination; 11. On Being Fierce; 12. Monopoly Houses: On John McPhee's In Search of Marvin Gardens; 13. Sailing the Sea in New Harmony Indiana: On Digression in Creative Nonfiction; 14. Driving Famous Writers Around I465; 15. Leaping Across the Canyon: On Writing; 16. Where's Iago?; 17. Saturation: On Climate, Politics, and Sex in Magic Mountain and Snow Country (or the Ballad of the S.A.D. Cafe); 18. Time Capsules: On Time in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop; 19. The Apprenticeship of Flannery O'Connor; 20. The Gift of Fire: A Meditation on Art and Madness; 21. On Common Ground: Indiana Literature and the Land; 22. The Economy of Peace