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The eleventh draft : craft and the writing life from the Iowa Writers' Workshop / by Conroy, Frank,1936-2005.(CARDINAL)712839; Iowa Writers' Workshop.(CARDINAL)515100;
Subjects: Iowa Writers' Workshop.; Authorship.; Creative writing (Higher education);
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A delicate aggression : savagery and survival in the Iowa Writers' Workshop / by Dowling, David Oakey,1967-author.(CARDINAL)500514;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-402) and index."As the world's preeminent creative writing program, the Iowa Writers' Workshop has produced an astonishing number of distinguished writers and poets since its establishment in 1936. Its alumni and faculty include twenty-eight Pulitzer Prize winners, six U.S. poet laureates, and numerous National Book Award winners. This volume follows the program from its rise to prominence in the early 1940s under director Paul Engle, who promoted the "workshop" method of classroom peer criticism. Meant to simulate the rigors of editorial and critical scrutiny in the publishing industry, this educational style created an environment of both competition and community, cooperation and rivalry. Focusing on some of the exceptional authors who have participated in the program--such as Flannery O'Connor, Dylan Thomas, Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Smiley, Sandra Cisneros, T.C. Boyle, and Marilynne Robinso--David Dowling examines how the Iowa Writers' Workshop has shaped professional authorship, publishing industries, and the course of American literature"--Page 2 of cover.Introduction -- 1. The brilliant misfit : Flannery O'Connor -- 2. The star : W.D. Snodgrass -- 3. The suicide : Robert Shelley -- 4. The professional : R.V. Cassill -- 5. The guru : Marguerite Young -- 6. The turncoat : Robert Lowell -- 7. Mad poets : Dylan Thomas and John Berryman -- 8. Celebrity faculty : Kurt Vonnegut and John Irving -- 9. Infidels : Sandra Cisneros and Joy Harjo -- 10. The crossover : Rita Dove -- 11. The genius : Jane Smiley -- 12. Red high-tops for life : T.C. Boyle -- 13. The mystic : Marilynne Robinson -- 14. The warrior : Anthony Swofford -- 15. The voice : Ayana Mathis and mass culture -- Epilogue : no monument : Engle's legacy and the Workshop's future.
Subjects: Iowa Writers' Workshop.; Creative writing (Higher education); Authorship;
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The Workshop : seven decades of the Iowa Writers' Workshop : forty-three stories, recollections, and essays on Iowa's place in twentieth-century American literature / by Iowa Writers' Workshop.(CARDINAL)515100; Grimes, Tom,1954-(CARDINAL)781088;
Chip off the old block / Wallace Stegner -- And in my heart / R.V. Cassill -- The comforts of home / Flannery O'Connor -- The illegibility of this world / Richard Stern -- The fisherman who got away / Thomas Williams -- Offspring of the first generation / Bette Pesetsky -- The hustler / Walter Tevis -- Put yourself in my shoes / Raymond Carver -- Saints / Bharati Mukherjee -- Dunkelblau / Clark Blaise -- Falling in love / Andre Dubus -- The last generation / Joy Williams -- A more complete cross-section / John Casey -- A sorrowful woman / Gail Godwin -- Thirty-four seasons of winter / William Kittredge -- Mouses / Thom Jones -- A solo song: for Doc / James Alan McPherson -- Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek -- Work / Denis Johnson -- His dog / Ron Hansen -- A women's restaurant / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- Aren't you happy for me? / Richard Bausch -- Blessed assurance: a moral tale / Allan Gurganus -- Long distance / Jane Smiley -- Alma / Jayne Anne Phillips -- White angel / Michael Cunningham -- Mundo's sign / Bob Shacochis -- The story of my life / Kim Edwards -- Birthmates / Gish Jen -- The year of getting to know us / Ethan Canin -- The zealous mourner / Marly Swick -- The commuter / Colin Harrison -- Planting / Pinckney Benedict -- Here's your hat what's your hurry / Elizabeth McCracken -- Out of the woods / Chris Offutt -- Open house / Charles D'Ambrosio -- Lilacs / Abraham Verghese -- A hole in the sheets / Susan Power -- Brownsville / Tom Piazza -- Pipa's story / Lan Samantha Chang -- Buckeye the elder / Brady Udall -- Speaking in tongues / ZZ Packer.
Subjects: Fiction.; Iowa Writers' Workshop.; Short stories, American.; American fiction; Creative writing (Higher education);
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Girls. [videorecording] / by Apatow, Judd,1967-television producer,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)346550; Driver, Adam,actor.(CARDINAL)340091; Dunham, Lena,1986-actor,creator,television director,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)601358; Karpovsky, Alex,actor.(CARDINAL)783522; Kirke, Jemima,actor.; Mamet, Zosia,1988-actor.; Moss-Bachrach, Ebon,actor.; Peretz, Jesse,1968-television producer,television director.; Rannells, Andrew,actor.(CARDINAL)787272; Williams, Allison,1988-actor.(CARDINAL)341547; Apatow Productions,production company.; I am Jenni Konner Productions (Firm),production company.;
Bonus features: audio commentaries with cast & crew ; inside the episodes.Iowa -- Triggering -- Female author -- Cubbies -- Sit-in -- Close up -- Ask me my name -- Tad & Loreen & Avi & Shanaz -- Daddy issues -- Home birth.Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Adam Driver, Alex Karpovsky, Andrew Rannells, Ebon Moss-Bachrach.In the fourth season the girls are tentatively edging toward maturity as they take on new personas in new worlds. As the season begins, Hannah leaves New York to attend the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop in the hopes of becoming a more serious writer, while confronting uncertainty in her relationship with Adam. Meanwhile, back in New York, Marnie pursues a music career while balancing her professional and romantic relationship with Desi; Shoshanna graduates and begins interviewing for jobs.TV rating: TV-MA.DVD, NTSC region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Television comedies.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Iowa Writers' Workshop; Female friendship; Single women; Women authors; Women college graduates; Women college graduates;
For private home or library use only.
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A Little Book on Form : An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry / by Hass, Robert,author.(CARDINAL)170986;
Includes bibliographical references.One -- Two -- Three -- Four -- A note on numbers -- Blank verse -- Sonnet -- Reading the sonnet -- Victorian medievalism: sestina and villanelle -- A note on genre -- Ode -- Reading the ode -- Elegy -- Reading the elegy -- Satire -- Georgic -- Variable stanzas and organic form -- Difficult forms -- Collage, abstraction, Oulipo, and procedural poetics -- Mixed forms -- Prose poem -- A note on stress -- How to scan a poem -- How free verse works."Robert Hass--former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize--illuminates the formal impulses that underlie great poetry in this accessible volume of essays drawn from a series of lectures he delivered at the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop,"--NoveList.
Subjects: Literature.; Poetry; Poetry; Literary form.; Creative ability.;
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Girls. [videorecording] / by Driver, Adam,actor.(CARDINAL)340091; Dunham, Lena,1986-actor.(CARDINAL)601358; Karpovsky, Alex,actor.(CARDINAL)783522; Kirke, Jemima,actor.; Mamet, Zosia,1988-actor.; Moss-Bachrach, Ebon,actor.; Williams, Allison,1988-actor.(CARDINAL)341547; HBO Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)341185; HBO Video (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)347268;
Lena Dunham, Adam Driver, Allison Williams, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Zosia Mamet, Alex Karpovsky, Jemima Kirke.Originally broadcast by HBO in 2015.In the fourth season the girls are tentatively edging toward maturity as they take on new personas in new worlds. As the season begins, Hannah leaves New York to attend the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop in the hopes of becoming a more serious writer, while confronting uncertainty in her relationship with Adam. Meanwhile, back in New York, Marnie pursues a music career while balancing her professional and romantic relationship with Desi; Shoshanna graduates and begins interviewing for jobs.Rating: TVMA.Blu-ray, region A, widescreen; requires Blu-ray player.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Television comedies.; Television series.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Female friendship; Single women; Women college graduates;
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On compromise : art, politics, and the fate of an American ideal / by Smith, Rachel Greenwald,Author(DLC)n 2014060596;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-210).Call and response: an introduction -- Welcome to the jungle -- Compromiser in chief -- Her hand on my octave -- The Missouri Compromise -- In a box -- Bad people -- Selling out -- A riot of one -- Trucker hats and torches -- My neighbor's heart -- Compromise in lockdown."On Compromise is an argument against contemporary liberal society's tendency to view compromise as an unalloyed good--politically, ethically, and artistically. In a series of clear, convincing essays, Rachel Greenwald Smith discusses the dangers of thinking about compromise as an end, rather than as a means. To illustrate her points, she recounts her stint in a band as a bass player, fighting with her bandmates about 'what the song wants,' and then moves outward to Bikini Kill and the Riot Grrrl movement, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Poetry magazine, the resurgence of fascism, and other wide-ranging topics."--.
Subjects: Essays.; History.; Compromise (Ethics); Liberalism; Integrity;
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Life's work : a memoir / by Milch, David,1945-author.(CARDINAL)390928;
""I feel like I'm on a boat sailing to some island where I don't know anybody. I'm on a boat someone is operating and we aren't in touch." So begins David Milch's urgent accounting of his increasingly strange present and often painful past. From the start, Milch's life seems destined to echo that of his father, a successful if drug-addicted surgeon. Almost every achievement is accompanied by an act of self-immolation, but the deepest sadnesses also contain moments of grace. Betting on race horses and stealing booze at eight years old, mentored by Robert Penn Warren and excoriated by Richard Yates at twenty-one, Milch never did anything by half. He got into Yale Law only to be expelled for shooting out street lights with a shotgun. He paused his studies at the Iowa Writers' Workshop to manufacture acid in Cuernavaca. He created and wrote some of the biggest, most lauded television series of all time, made a family and pursued sobriety, and then lost his fortune betting horses just as his father had taught him"--Prologue -- Peace Bridge -- Strategies of indirection -- Hustle -- Storytelling is not therapy -- Turn me loose -- Owl at dawn -- Dogs and cats -- Three stories -- Zenyatta -- Bleeding -- Mornings.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Milch, David, 1945-; Television writers; Television producers and directors;
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Song so wild and blue : a life with the music of Joni Mitchell / by Lisicky, Paul,author.(CARDINAL)537507;
"From the celebrated novelist and memoirist, a gorgeous account of how Joni Mitchell's work has shaped his writing throughout his life.From the moment Paul Lisicky heard Joni Mitchell while growing up in New Jersey, he recognized she was that rarity among musicians--a talent whose combination of introspection, liberation, and deep musicality set her apart from any other artist of the time. As a young man, Paul was a budding songwriter who took his cues from Mitchell's mysteries and idiosyncrasies. But as he matured, he set his guitar aside and turned to prose, a practice that would eventually take him to the Iowa Writers' Workshop and into the professional world of letters. As the decades passed, Paul's connection to Mitchell's artistry only deepened. Joni's music was a constant, a guide to life and an artist's manual in one. As Paul navigated love and heartbreak and imaginative struggles and the vicissitudes of a creative career, he would return again and again to the lessons found in Joni's songs, to the solace and challenges that only her musicianship could give. Song So Wild and Blue is a gorgeously written, beautifully intimate, and unique tribute to the woman who shaped generations of creators and thinkers. Lisicky offers his own coming-of-adulthood as testimony to the power of songwriting and staying true to your creative vision. A guide to life that is part memoir, part biography, and part homage, Song So Wild and Blue is a joy for devoted Joni enthusiasts, budding writers, and artists of all stripes."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Mitchell, Joni; Lisicky, Paul.; Popular music fans;
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