Mississippi Writers Talking

University Press of Mississippi (Editora)

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Enjoy these literary conversations with some of the foremost authors writing in America today. Though writing is what they do best, talking about literature is an act that the Mississippi writers included here do marvelously well. This is the first of two volumes of interviews with eleven of the state’s prizewinning writers. This series shows that Mississippi continues to flourish with authors of importance and acclaim. Included in this first volume are Jones’s informal conversations with Eudora Welty, Shelby Foote, Elizabeth Spencer, Barry Hannah, and Beth Henley.

Mississippi Writers Talking provides new insights into understanding the views, the works, and the craft of principal American authors who are Mississippians. They speak with candor about themselves and tell of the urges that brought them to write the books and stories for which they are best known.

Volume two includes interviews with Walker Percy, Margaret Walker, Ellen Douglas, Willie Morris, Turner Cassity, and

Sobre o Livro

Conjunto de entrevistas com autores ligados ao estado do Mississippi, focalizando processos de escrita e memórias literárias; inclui conversas com Eudora Welty, Shelby Foote, Elizabeth Spencer, Barry Hannah e Beth Henley.

Formato voltado para leitores e pesquisadores de literatura americana, oferecendo relatos diretos sobre práticas de escrita, escolhas temáticas e contexto regional; primeiro de dois volumes de entrevistas.

Útil para cursos de literatura e seminários sobre escritores regionais, bem como para leitores interessados em depoimentos sobre o trabalho literário; conteúdo em inglês conforme edição original.