"Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and teaching literature for over twenty years. In this sparkling collection of essays, he brings this vast experience and a keen critical eye to bear on craft issues facing literary writers. Examples from masters such as Leo Tolstoy, Flannery O'Connor, and Alice Munro illustrate this engaging discussion of what makes great writing." "At the same time. · In "The Half-Known World: On Writing Fiction", Robert Boswell (the published author of five novels and an instructor in creative writing at the New Mexico State University, the University of Houston, and in the Warren Wilson MFA program) draws upon his more than twenty years of personal experience and earned expertise to compile nine compelling informed and informative 5/5(4). · The Half-Known World: On Writing Fiction by Robert Boswell. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, ,
Robert Boswell is the author of five novels and three short story collections, as well as a book on the craft of fiction, The Half-Known www.doorway.ru most recent short story collection, The Heyday of Insensitive Bastards (Graywolf) was selected in as one of Oprah Winfrey's "25 books you can't put down" in the July issue of O www.doorway.ru stories have appeared the New Yorker, The Best. Robert Boswell, author of The Best American Short Stories , on LibraryThing. Robert Boswell, author of The Best American Short Stories , on LibraryThing The Half-Known World: On Writing Fiction 70 copies. Virtual Death 59 copies, 4 reviews. Century's Son 54 copies, 3 reviews. American Owned Love 53 copies. They confuse the half- known world of literary fiction with the fully known worlds of popular film or TV sitcom. Even textbooks designed to teach fiction writing suffer from this confusion. Novice writers are advised to make a list of traits that define a character or a specific setting prior to embarking on a story.
The Half-Known World, Robert Boswell's collection of essays on the craft of fiction writing, is also driving-idea behind his conversation with Michael Hinken. In it Boswell discusses the power of writing better sentences, characterization as jazz, the narrative brain versus the linear brain, the value of writing fifty drafts and other mysteries and wonders of the half-known world. Published in by Graywolf Press. The Half-Known World is a collection of essays by writing instructor and author Robert Boswell on craft issues facing literary writers. Boswell details how important it is for writers to give themselves over to what he calls the “half-known world” of fiction, where surprise and meaning converge. Read reviews and buy The Half-Known World - by Robert Boswell (Paperback) at Target. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Free standard shipping with $35 orders.
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