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The World Split Open: Great Authors on How and Why We Write


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Since 1984, Literary Arts has welcomed many of the world's most renowned authors and storytellers to its stage. In celebration of their thirty-year anniversary, Tin House Books has collected highlights from the series in a single volume.

Since 1984, Literary Arts has welcomed many of the world’s most renowned authors and storytellers to its stage for one of the country’s largest lectures series. Sold-out crowds congregate at Portland’s Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall to hear these writers’ discuss their work and their thoughts on the trajectory of contemporary literature and culture. In celebration of Literary Arts’ thirty-year anniversary, Tin House Books has collected highlights from the series in a single volume. Whether it’s Wallace Stegner exploring how we use fiction to make sense of life or Ursula K. Le Guin on where ideas come from, Margaret Atwood on the need for complex female characters or Robert Stone on morality and truth in literature, Edward P. Jones on the role of imagination in historical novels or Marilynne Robinson on the nature of beauty, these essays illuminate not just the world of letters but the world at large.

About the Author :
Literary Arts began in 1984 as Portland Arts and Lectures, an event series designed to bring leading authors and cultural thinkers to Portland. Now a Portland tradition, the series brings the world’s most celebrated writers to present original talks about their art, as well as the most compelling political, social, and cultural issues of our time, before one of the largest literary lecture audiences in the nation.

Review :
"Far more than a compendium of dreary 'this is how and why I write' essays, these force readers to re-examine the ways they interact with words. The rhythm of syllables as they play against each other on the page and the way fiction, in particular, can transport us out of the here and now helps readers gain perspective and aids in our understanding of the world. . . With eloquence and grace, highly acclaimed authors ponder the complexities of the writer's life and art form."
"Kirkus"
"Dare I suggest that the unpublished majority find something . . . aspirational in the very act of reading these essays?"
"The Masters Review"
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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781935639961
  • Publisher: Tin House
  • Publisher Imprint: Tin House
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 277 gr
  • ISBN-10: 193563996X
  • Publisher Date: 11 Nov 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Great Authors on How and Why We Write
  • Width: 142 mm


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