For the Record: A Robert Drake Reader

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Mercer University Press, 2001 - 332 pàgines
More than just a collection of stories and essays by beloved writer Robert Drake, For the Record: A Robert Drake Reader is an introduction to the craft and art of short story writing, as the stories are accompanied by analyses of Drake as a short story writer and essayist.
 

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Preface
xi
An Introduction
1
Stories by Robert Drake
19
The Tower and the Pear Tree
21
The Square
27
Up on the Corner on the Dogleg
35
The Living Room
45
Amazing Grace
53
On Saturday Serials and More Reading
196
On Parliament
200
On an Early Memory
201
On Diction
202
On Teaching
203
On Writing
205
On His Education
211
On Race
219

Her Name on a Tombstone Her Diamond Ring on Another Womans Hand
61
Change of Life
69
The Clothesline
77
Now Baby Do You Know One Thing?
89
The Legacy
99
Miss Effie the Peabody and Father Time
109
The Summer of the WindowPeeper
119
The Time the Bank Failed
125
Were You There?
135
Do You Know Ben Webster? Have You Seen Him?
141
The Single Heart
151
Never Have Been a Well Woman
161
Ella Biggs
167
1975 Has Come and Gone
177
Introduction to the Interview and Essays
187
Interview with Robert Drake
191
On Reading and the Movies
193
On Travel
223
On Friends
227
On Shyness
232
On Teaching Writing
235
On Storytelling
236
On Types of Humor
238
On Beginning as a Writer and on Publishing
242
On Tom Wolfe Jr
248
On the Ear and the Eye
252
On Agents
256
On Yaddo
258
All This Material and Other Such Things
267
The Writer as Hunger Artist
277
The Writer as Observer the Writer as Outsider
287
Death and Old Women
301
A Robert Drake Bibliography 19532000
315
Copyright

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