TY  - GEN
T1  - Why I like this story
A2  - Bryer, Jackson R.
LA  - English
PP  - Rochester, N.Y.
PB  - Camden House
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1104227657
AB  - "On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they also tell us a good deal about the author of the essay, about what elements of fiction he or she values. Among the writers whose stories are discussed are such American masters as James, Melville, Hemingway, O'Connor, Fitzgerald, Porter, Carver, Wright, Updike, Bellow, Salinger, Kincaid, Malamud, and Welty; but the book also includes pieces on stories by well-known practitioners such as Andre Dubus, Ellen Glasgow, Kay Boyle, Delmore Schwartz, George Garrett, Elizabeth Tallent, William Goyen, Jerome Weidman, Peter Matthiessen, Grace Paley, and William H. Gass, and relative newcomers such as Lorrie Moore, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Phil Klay, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Edward P. Jones. Why I Like This Story will send readers to the library or bookstore to read or re-read the stories selected. Among the contributors to the book are Julia Alvarez, Andrea Barrett, Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Andre Dubus, George Garrett, William H. Gass, Julia Glass, Doris Grumbach, Jane Hamilton, Jill McCorkle, Alice McDermott, Clarence Major, Howard Norman, Annie Proulx, Joan Silber, Elizabeth Spencer, and Mako Yoshikawa."--
CN  - Z1003.2 .W485 2019eb
SN  - 9781787445352
SN  - 1787445356
SN  - 9781640140585
SN  - 1640140581
KW  - Authors, American : Books and reading.
KW  - Short stories, American : History and criticism.
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Écrivains américains : Livres et lecture.
KW  - Nouvelles américaines : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Influence littéraire, artistique, etc.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Books & Reading.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - Authors, American : Books and reading
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - American literature.
KW  - American short stories.
KW  - contemporary fiction.
KW  - creative writing.
KW  - elements of fiction.
KW  - essay collection.
KW  - literary friendship.
KW  - short story.
KW  - writers as readers.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -