Endangered Species: Writers Talk About Their Craft, Their Visions, Their Lives - Softcover

Grobel, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306810042 ISBN 13: 9780306810046

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 2001

Synopsis

Norman Mailer once told Lawrence Grobel that writers may be an endangered species. And Saul Bellow said, "The country has changed so, that what I do no longer signifies anything, as it did when I was young." But to judge from this collection, writers and writing aren't done for quite yet. Sometimes serious, sometimes funny, sometimes caustic, always passionate, the twelve writers in Endangered Species memorably state their case for what they do and how they do it. And they even offer an opinion or two about other writers and about the entire publishing food chain: from agents to publishers to booksellers to critics.

About this title

About the Author:

Lawrence Grobel has been a freelance writer for more than thirty years, writing for the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Playboy, Movieline, and many other periodicals; Playboy called him the interviewer's interviewer” after his historic conversation with Marlon Brando. Grobel has written several books, including Conversations with Capote, Talking with Michener, and The Hustons. He lives in Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0306810042
• ISBN 13: 9780306810046
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416