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The Workshop : Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, Essays on Iowa's Place in Twentieth-Century American Literature
The Workshop Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop 43 Stories Recollections Essays on Iowa's Place in TwentiethCentury American Literature Author:Tom Grimes Now available in paperback, this extraordinary volume traces the Iowa Writers' Workshop's decade-by-decade evolution from the 1930s through the present. Until the end of the 19th century, no one believed that creative writing was a discipline that could be taught. A writer either possessed the genius to write literature, or didn't. Then, the Io... more »wa Writer's Workshop came along and changed the history of American Literature. This collection consists of forty-three stories, each with an introduction by writers from the Iowa Workshop. It also includes original essays on both the writing life and trends in 20th century American Literature that were shaped by the growth of the Iowa program and the programs that followed. Featuring works by Wallace Stegner, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Thom Jones, Bharati Mukherjee, Ethan Canin, Kathryn Harrison and Jane Smiley, this collection is a decade-by-decade celebration of those who studied at America's premier writing program. Here you'll find insightful essays about the program and the creation of stories that came out of it, and a summation that ponders the effective creative writing programs have had on literature in this century. The Workshop is the definitive book on not only the Iowa Writers' Workshop, but the method it developed and the rise of creative writing programs everywhere.« less