Format:
Book
Title:
Of fiction and faith : twelve American writers talk about their vision and work / W. Dale Brown.
Author:
Brown, W. Dale.
Call Number:
813.09 B815of
Publisher, Date:
Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub., c1997.
Description:
ix, 269 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"Conducted over a five-year period by W. Dale Brown, these interviews provide a window into the personal and literary lives of a company of writers whose work continues to defy categorization. These writers talk candidly about their careers, their audiences, their approaches to writing, and their attitudes toward issues of faith. Taken together, the interviews provide a perceptive analysis of contemporary literature and a challenge to the practice of labeling books as "Christian" or "secular.""--BOOK JACKET. "The volume also includes photographs, a brief introduction to each of the writers, and a chronological listing of their work."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects:
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Religion and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.
Religious fiction, American -- Authorship.
Faith in literature.
Fiction -- Authorship.
Contents:
Learning to Balance / Doris Betts -- Doubt and Faith / Frederick Buechner -- On Madness and Longing / Robert Olen Butler -- By the Fire / Will Campbell -- 500 Words a Day / Elizabeth Dewberry -- Dusty's Flying Taxi / Clyde Edgerton -- True Stories / Denise Giardina -- The Whodunit / Robert Goldsborough -- Happy Man / Jon Hassler -- You Can Take the Boy out of the Country / Garrison Keillor -- Writing and Revelation / Peggy Payne -- Man of Letters / Walter Wangerin.
ISBN:
0802843131 (pbk.: alk. paper)