Author: Charles Baxter
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Keywords: art, plot, subtext
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2007-07-24
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 1555974732
ISBN-13: 9781555974732

Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction.Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter’s The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the suppressed, and the secreted. Using an array of examples from Melville and Dostoyevsky to contemporary writers Paula Fox, Edward P. Jones, and Lorrie Moore, Baxter explains how fiction writers create those visible and

Author: Charles Baxter
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: contemporaries, vintage, thief, soul
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 140003440X
ISBN-13: 9781400034406

As a graduate student in upstate New York, Nathaniel Mason is drawn into a tangle of relationships with people who seem to hover just beyond his grasp. There’s Theresa, alluring but elusive, and Jamie, who is fickle if not wholly unavailable. But Jerome Coolberg is the most mysterious and compelling. Not only cryptic about himself, he seems also to have appropriated parts of Nathaniel’s past that Nathaniel cannot remember having told him about. In this extraordinary novel of mischief and menace, we see a young man’s very self vanishing before his eyes.

Author: Charles Baxter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: stories, stranger, relative
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-09
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0393322203
ISBN-13: 9780393322200

Authors:Charles Baxter, Peter Turchi,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: writing, life, fiction, craft, devil, knees, bringing
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-06-04
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0472067745
ISBN-13: 9780472067749

In Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life, seventeen award-winning writers--all expert teachers--share the secrets of creating compelling, imaginative stories and novels. A combination handbook, writer’s companion, and collection of spirited personal essays, the book is filled with specific examples, hard-won wisdom, and compassionate guidance for the developing or experienced fiction writer.Each of the contributors is a current or former lecturer at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, one of the most highly respected writing programs in

Authors:Charles Baxter, Michael Collier, Edward Hirsch,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: appreciations, memories, portrait, maxwell, william
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-08
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0393057712
ISBN-13: 9780393057713

Three generations of writers celebrate a master whose life and work continue to reverberate in contemporary letters. William Maxwell, who died in July 2000, was revered as one of the twentieth century’s great American writers and a longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker. Now writers who knew Maxwell and were inspired by him—both the man and his work—offer intimate essays, most specifically written for this volume, that "bring him back to life, right there in front of us." Alec Wilkinson writes of Maxwell as mentor; Edward Hirsch remembers him in old age; Charles Baxter illum

Authors:Katherine Baxter, Richard Hand, Katherine Baxter, Ric
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: arts, performing, conrad, joseph
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 2009-01-28
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754664902
ISBN-13: 9780754664901

Conrad’s fiction is characterized by an enduring recourse to the performing arts for metaphor, allegory, symbol, and subject matter; however, this aspect of Conrad’s non-dramatic works has only recently begun to come into its own among literary critics. In response to this seminal moment, "Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts" offers an exciting, interdisciplinary forum for one of the most interesting and nascent areas of Conrad studies.Adopting a variety of theoretical approaches, the contributors examine major and neglected works within the context of the performing arts: cultur

Author: E, H Baxter
Publisher: Read Country Books
Keywords: hunting, anthology, game, safari, amp, shikar
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 1443737844
ISBN-13: 9781443737845

Originally published in 1931. The first definitve Big Game Hunting anthology to be published in the English language. This is a wonderful collection of the best writings by the best hunters: Selous - Neumann - Percival - Snaffle - Pollock - Baillie-Grohman - Sutherland - Patterson and many others. Contents Include hunting the Big Three and many other species in Africa, Asia, Europe, Arctic, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Read Country Books are republishi