| Description |
x, 252 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
"Baxter shares years of wisdom and reflection on what makes fiction work, including essays that were first given as craft talks at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. The essays here range from brilliant thinking on the nature of wonderlands in the fiction of Haruki Murakami and other fabulist writers, to how request moments function in a story. Baxter is equally at home tackling a thorny matter such as charisma (which intersects with political figures like the disastrous forty-fifth US president) as he is bringing new interest to subjects such as list-making in fiction"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Request moment, or "There's something I want you to do" -- Inventories and undoings -- Things about to disappear -- Captain Happen -- Lush life -- What happens in hell -- All the dark nights - a letter -- Charisma and fictional authority - nine fragments toward an essay -- Wonderlands -- Toxic narratives, and the bad workshop -- On the plausibility of dreams. -- Notes on the dramtic image: an essay in six parts. |
| Subject |
Fiction -- History and criticism.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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| Added Author |
Baxter, Charles, 1947-
Request moment, or "There's something I want you to do."
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Baxter, Charles, 1947-
Inventories and undoings.
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Baxter, Charles, 1947-
Things about to disappear.
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Baxter, Charles, 1947-
Captain Happen.
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Baxter, Charles, 1947-
Lush life.
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Baxter, Charles, 1947-
What happens in hell.
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Baxter, Charles, 1947-
All the dark nights, a letter.
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Baxter, Charles, 1947-
Charisma and fictional authority, nine fragments toward an essay.
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Baxter, Charles, 1947-
Toxic narratives, and the bad workshop.
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Baxter, Charles, 1947-
On the plausibility of dreams.
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| ISBN |
9781644450918 pbk. |
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