Selected Essays
1st Edition
Published on 15. January 2009
288 pages
978-1-897231-80-7 (ISBN)
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Clark Blaise's Selected Essays brings together another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre: belle lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadan heritage, the craft of fiction, American fiction, Australian fiction, and the work of such individual writers and Jack Kerouac, V.S. Naipaul, Salmon Rushdie, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, and Bernard Malamud, his friend and mentor.
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Born to Canadian parents in North Dakota in 1940, Clark Blaise grew up with an outsider's view of America and a romanticized exile's view of Canada. The author of nine story collections, three novels and four previous works of non-fiction, he currently lives in both New York and San Francisco with his wife, Bharati Mukherjee.
Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- Autobiographical Essay: 1940-1984
- Mentors
- The Border as Fiction
- Kerouac in Black and White
- The Smuggler's Son Grows Older
- Ideas Suggested by Nerves
- The International Novel
- Rushdie as Novelist, Rushdie as Critic
- Exile and Memory
- American Fiction
- Some Thoughts on Canadian and Australian Fiction
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Pup
- Notes on the 'Canadian' Short Story
- How Stories Mean
- The Craft of the Short Story
- The Justice-Dealing Machine
- A Delayed Disclosure
- Autobiographical Annex: 1985-2006
- THE WORLD OF CLARK BLAISE:A BIBLIOGRAPHY
