TY - BOOK AU - Hallman,J.C. TI - The story about the story: great writers explore great literature SN - 9780980243697 AV - PN45 .S857 2009 U1 - 809 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Portland, Or., Berkeley, CA PB - Tin House Books, Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West KW - Literature KW - History and criticism KW - Authors KW - Books and reading N1 - Introduction : toward a fusion; J.C. Hallman --; Salinger and sobs; Charles D'Ambrosio --; An essay in criticism; Virginia Woolf --; On a stanza by John Keats; Sven Birkerts --; In terms of the toenail : fiction and the figures of life; William H. Gass --; The border trilogy by Cormac McCarthy; Dagoberto Gilb --; "The metamorphosis"; Vladimir Nabokov --; "How to express your emotions" : an excerpt from How Proust can change your life; Alain de Botton --; Learning from Eliot; Seamus Heaney --; Out of Kansas; Salman Rushdie --; Portentous evil; J.C. Hallman --; The other James; Michael Chabon --; Truman Capote reconsidered; Cynthia Ozick --; What Chekhov meant by life; James Wood --; Herman Melville's Moby Dick; D.H. Lawrence --; An excerpt from Out of sheer rage; Geoff Dyer --; Robert Frost; Czeslaw Milosz --; An excerpt from The year of reading Proust; Phyllis Rose --; The humble animal; Randall Jarrell --; Loving Dostoyevsky; Susan Sontag --; An excerpt from How to read a poem and fall in love with poetry; Edward Hirsch --; A slight sound at evening; E.B. White --; Good-bye, Holden Caulfield. I mean it. Go! Good-bye!; Walter Kirn --; Mr. Pater's last volume; Oscar Wilde --; Into some wild places with Hemingway; Fred Setterberg --; Lowell's graveyard; Robert Hass --; Thoughts on The idiot by Dostoevsky; Herman Hesse --; An author in search of a subject; Frank O'Connor --; Waugh's comic wasteland; David Lodge --; Somewhere behind; Milan Kundera --; Herman Melville; Albert Camus --; On Steinbeck's story "Flight"; Wallace Stegner UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1312/2009015717-d.html ER -