"Writers are both born and made, and their teachers share in the making of them, but in what ways?" Molly McQuade asks in An Unsentimental Education , a collection of candid interviews with twenty-one of our leading novelists and poets. Presented as first-person essays, the interviews are with contemporary writers who have studied, taught at, or cultivated other ties with the University of Chicago. The book provides an occasion for the writers to reflect on their Chicago experiences and on ideas about education in general. ...
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"Writers are both born and made, and their teachers share in the making of them, but in what ways?" Molly McQuade asks in An Unsentimental Education , a collection of candid interviews with twenty-one of our leading novelists and poets. Presented as first-person essays, the interviews are with contemporary writers who have studied, taught at, or cultivated other ties with the University of Chicago. The book provides an occasion for the writers to reflect on their Chicago experiences and on ideas about education in general. What education does a writer need? How can formal learning impel the writing life? What school stories or tales told out of school do Philip Roth, Hayden Carruth, Marguerite Young, George Steiner, Charles Simic, Susan Sontag, and Saul Bellow have in store and want to share. Interviews with: Saul Bellow, Paul Carroll, Hayden Carruth, Robert Coover, Leon Forrest, June Jordan, Janet Kauffman, Morris Philipson, M. L. Rosenthal, Philip Roth, Susan Fromberg Shaeffer, Charles Simic, Susan Sontag, George Starbuck, George Steiner, Richard Stern, Nathaniel Tarn, Douglas Unger, Kurt Vonnegut, and Marguerite Young.
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Like New in Good+ jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Clean, tight copy. Dj. has some light waving from water damage on back, dampstain on the inside flap, light rubbing. Pages as new. 256 pages.
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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1995 McQuade, Molly, ed AN UNSENTIMENTAL EDUCATION: WRITERS AND CHICAGO Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, c1995 first printing 256pp, index 8vo as new unread hardcover in fine d/j.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Light foxing edges of text block. Sticker on jacket. 0226562107. Interviews with 21 writers connected to the University of Chicago, including Susan Sontag, Philip Roth and Kurt Vonnegut. Signed by the editor.; 8vo; 256 pages; Signed by Editor.
