A story larger than my own : women writers look back on their lives and careers

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A story larger than my own : women writers look back on their lives and careers

edited by Janet Burroway

University of Chicago Press, c2014

  • : paper
  • : cloth

Available at  / 2 libraries

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Contents of Works

  • Introduction / Janet Burroway
  • The older writer in the underworld / Julia Alvarez
  • On craft / Margaret Atwood
  • The ratio is narrowing / Madeleine Blais
  • Parsing ambition / Rosellen Brown
  • Mothers and daughters / Judith Ortiz Cofer
  • The offices of my heart / Toi Derricotte
  • Working on the ending / Gail Godwin
  • The potholder model of literary ambition / Patricia Henley
  • Breaking the final taboo / Erica Jong
  • Passing it on / Marilyn Krysl
  • Metamorphosis : from light verse to the poetry of witness / Maxine Kumin
  • On certainty / Honor Moore
  • Splitting open: some poems on aging / Alicia Ostriker
  • Old woman, or nearly so myself : an essay in poems / Linda Pastan
  • Public appearances / Edith Pearlman
  • Say yes / Hilda Raz
  • Boys and girls / Jane Smiley
  • The stories from which I come / Laura Tohe
  • What I know / Hilma Wolitzer

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