Listen to Their Voices: Twenty Interviews With Women Who Write
By Mickey Pearlman.
Description
In this book, Mickey Pearlman listens to the voices of women who write. Some, like Grace Paley, Fay Weldon and Jane Smiley, have numerous admirers. Others - Janette Turner Hospital and Jessica Hagedorn - are just now achieving recognition. Novelists, short-story writers, poets and writers of non-fiction - twenty voices in all - talk candidly about childhood, religion, the transformation of memory and why they chose to write in a particular genre. Their feelings about being classified as "hyphenated writers" (Chinese- or Japanese-American) are aired, as are their reactions to the w...
ISBN(s)
0393034429, 9780393034424
