“In a letter to his parents, George Plimpton once described The Paris Review interview as ‘an essay in dialogue on technique.’ As you will see from this volume, technique is always the main topic—how a writer begins to write, to think of herself as a writer; what struggles she meets; if and how she overcomes them. But thanks to the unusual method invented by Plimpton and the ot...(展开全部)

“In a letter to his parents, George Plimpton once described The Paris Review interview as ‘an essay in dialogue on technique.’ As you will see from this volume, technique is always the main topic—how a writer begins to write, to think of herself as a writer; what struggles she meets; if and how she overcomes them. But thanks to the unusual method invented by Plimpton and the ot...(展开全部)

Introduced by editor Emily Nemens and illustrated by Joana Avillez, the twelve interviews in Women at Work Volume Two add to the stunning lineup in Women at Work Volume One; from Marianne Moore (1961) to Maxine Groffsky (2017)—by way of Katherine Anne Porter, Marguerite Young, May Sarton, Doris Lessing, Maya Angelou, Alice Munro, Jeanette Winterson, Wendy Wasserstein, Luisa Val...(展开全部)

Introduced by editor Emily Nemens and illustrated by Joana Avillez, the twelve interviews in Women at Work Volume Two add to the stunning lineup in Women at Work Volume One; from Marianne Moore (1961) to Maxine Groffsky (2017)—by way of Katherine Anne Porter, Marguerite Young, May Sarton, Doris Lessing, Maya Angelou, Alice Munro, Jeanette Winterson, Wendy Wasserstein, Luisa Val...(展开全部)

A Picador Paperback Original How do great writers do it? From James M. Cain's hard-nosed observation that "writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational," to Joan Didion's account of how she composes a book—"I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets ...(展开全部)

A Picador Paperback Original How do great writers do it? From James M. Cain's hard-nosed observation that "writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational," to Joan Didion's account of how she composes a book—"I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets ...(展开全部)

杜鲁门•卡波蒂、欧内斯特•海明威、亨利•米勒、弗拉基米尔•纳博科夫、约翰•厄普代克、杰克•凯鲁亚克、加西亚•马尔克斯、雷蒙德•卡佛、米兰•昆德拉、阿兰•罗伯-格里耶、君特•格拉斯、保罗•奥斯特、村上春树、斯蒂芬•金、奥尔罕•帕慕克、翁贝托•埃科

杜鲁门•卡波蒂、欧内斯特•海明威、亨利•米勒、弗拉基米尔•纳博科夫、约翰•厄普代克、杰克•凯鲁亚克、加西亚•马尔克斯、雷蒙德•卡佛、米兰•昆德拉、阿兰•罗伯-格里耶、君特•格拉斯、保罗•奥斯特、村上春树、斯蒂芬•金、奥尔罕•帕慕克、翁贝托•埃科

Your project went off without a hitch--but somebody else got the credit...You averted a crisis brilliantly--but no one noticed...You came to the meeting with a sensational idea--but it was ignored until someone else said the same thing... HOW CAN YOU GET CREDIT & GET AHEAD? In her extraordinary international bestseller, You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen transformed fo...(展开全部)

We can reach every point in the world but, more importantly, we can be reached from any point in the world. Privacy and its possibilities are abolished. Attention is under siege everywhere. Not silence but uninterrupted noise, not the red desert, but a cognitive space overcharged with nervous incentives to act: this is the alienation of our times.... —from The Soul at Work Capi...(展开全部)