Art and Craft

Thirty Years on the Literary Beat

Autor: Thompson, Bill; Humphreys, Josephine
Editor: University of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781611174427
eISBN Pdf: 9781611174434
eISBN Epub: 9781611174434
Lugar de publicación: South Carolina , Estados Unidos
Año de publicación digital: 2015
Mes: Enero
Idioma: Ingles

Descripción

A compendium of profiles, interviews, and reviews published by the South Carolina book review editor

Art and Craft presents the hand-picked fruit of Bill Thompson's three decades covering writers and writing as book review editor of Charleston, South Carolina's Post and Courier. Beginning with a foreword by Charleston novelist Josephine Humphreys, this collection is a compendium of interviews featuring some of the most distinguished novelists and nonfiction writers in America and abroad, including Tom Wolfe, Pat Conroy, Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Bragg, and Anthony Bourdain, as well as many South Carolinians. With ten thematic chapters ranging from the Southern Renaissance, literature, biography, and travel writing to crime fiction and Civil War history, Art and Craft also includes a sampling of Thompson's reviews.

A foreword is written by South Carolina novelist Josephine Humphreys, who is author of Dreams of Sleep (winner of the 1985 Ernest Hemingway Award for First Fiction), Rich in Love (made into a major motion picture), The Fireman's Fair, and Nowhere Else on Earth.

Featuring: Jack Bass, Rick Bragg, Roy Blount, Jr., Robin Cook, Pat Conroy, Patricia Cornwell, Dorothea Benton Frank, Herb Frazier, Sue Grafton, Carl Hiaasen, Sue Monk Kidd, Brian Lamb, Bret Lott, Jill McCorkle, James McPherson, Mary Alice Monroe, Joyce Carol Oates, Carl Reiner, Dori Sanders, Charles Seabrook, Anne Rivers Siddons, Lee Smith, Mickey Spillane, Paul Theroux, Tom Wolfe

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Leading Lights, or the Test of Renown
- Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full
- Norman Mailer’s Oswald’s Tale
- Diane Ackerman’s An Alchemy of Mind
- Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?
- Michael Cunningham’s The Hours
- Pat Conroy’s Beach Mus
- Charles Baxter’s Shadow Play
- Joyce Carol Oates’s We Are the Mulvaneys
- Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s List
- Gary Smith’s Beyond the Game
- Jill McCorkle’s Final Vinyl Days
- Tim O’Brien’s Tomcat in Love
Biography, Real and Imagined
- David Quammen’s The Reluctant Mr. Darwin
- Jack Bass’s Ol’ Strom
- Linda Lear’s Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
- Rick Bragg’s The Prince of Frogtown
- James I. Robertson’s Stonewall Jackson
- Lisa Rogak’s Haunted Heart
- Donald Spoto’s High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly
- Dick Côté’s Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolley Madison
The Traveler’s Muse
- Paul Theroux’s The Tao of Travel
- Gregory Jaynes’s Come Hell on High Water
- R. W. Apple’s Apple’s America
- Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor’s Traveling with Pomegranates
- Robert Olen Butler’s Had a Good Time
- Jack Hitt’s Off the Road
- Roy Blount Jr.’s Not Exactly What I Had in Mind
The Late Unpleasantness, in Fact and Fiction
- Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain
- Edward Ball’s Slaves in the Family
- Tony Horwitz’s Confederates in the Attic
- Winston Groom’s Shrouds of Glory
- Shelby Foote’s The Civil War: A Narrative
- Howard Bahr’s The Year of Jubilo
- James M. McPherson’s Writing the Civil War
- William C. Davis’s Look Away!
- Lee Smith’s On Agate Hill
- Robert Rosen’s Jewish Confederates
- Douglas Bostick’s Charleston Under Siege
The Southern Renaissance
- James M. Hutchisson’s DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentlemana nd the World of Porgy and Bess
- Susan Millar Williams’s A Devil and a Good Woman, Too
- Martha Severens’s The Charleston Renaissance
- Barbara Bellows’s A Talent for Living
- Louise Allen’s A Bluestocking in Charleston
Crime and Punishment
- Carl Hiaasen’s Stormy Weather
- John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Patricia Cornwell’s Unnatural Exposure
- Sue Grafton’s P Is for Peril
- Mickey Spillane’s Perfect Life and The Ship That Never Was
- James Ellroy’s Destination: Morgue!
- Joe Queenan’s Queenan Country
Pressing Issues
- Kirkpatrick Sale’s The Conquest of Paradise
- Robin Cook’s Critical
- Mary Alice Monroe’s Sweetgrass
- Anthony Doerr’s Memory Wall
- Roger Pinckney’s Signs and Wonders
- David Cox’s Dirty Secrets, Dirty War
- Fritz Hollings’s Making Government Work
- Harriet McBryde Johnson’s Too Late to Die Young
- Will Moredock’s Banana Republic: A Year in the Heart of Myrtle Beach
- Herb Frazier’s Behind God’s Back
Watering the Wasteland
- Dick Cavett’s Talk Show
- David Steinberg’s The Book of David
- Carl Reiner’s Just Desserts
- Larry Doyle’s I Love You, Beth Cooper
- Bill Geist’s Way off the Road
- Brian Lamb’s “Booknotes”
Palmetto’s Progress (The Locals)
- Bret Lott’s How to Get Home
- William Baldwin’s A Gentleman of Charleston and the Manner of His Death
- Josephine Humphreys’s Nowhere Else on Earth
- Robert Jordan’s Crossroads of Twilight
- Charles Seabrook’s Cumberland Island: Strong Women, Wild Horses
- Sidney Rittenberg’s The Man Who Stayed Behind
- Anne LeClercq’s Between North and South
- Dori Sanders’s Her Own Place
- Anne Rivers Siddons’s Sweetwater Creek
- Padgett Powell’s Edisto Revisited
- Elise Blackwell’s Grub
- Harlan Greene’s The German Officer’s Boy
- Ben Moïse’s Ramblings of a Lowcountry Game Warden
- Dorothea Benton Frank’s Porch Lights
The Reviews
- The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen
- Sex and Destiny by Germaine Greer
- Orson Welles: A Biography by Barbara Leaming
- Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
- Douglas Fairbanks by Jeffrey Vance
- J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey
- Less Than Glory by Norman Gelb
- American Beat by Bob Greene
- Sean Connery by Andrew Yule
- An Urchin in the Storm by Stephen Jay Gould
- The New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson
- Adventures in Porkland by Brian Kelly
- Fishing in the Tiber by Lance Morrow
- A Literary Feast Edited by Lilly Golden