Talking Up a Storm: Voices of the New West - Hardcover

Morris, Gregory L.

9780803231696: Talking Up a Storm: Voices of the New West

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803231695 ISBN 13: 9780803231696

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1994

In interviews with fifteen contemporary writers of the American West, Gregory L. Morris demonstrates what these widely divergent talents have in common: they all redefine what it is to be a western writer. No longer enthralled (though sometimes inspired) by the literary traditions of openness, place, and rugged individualism, each of the writers has remained true to the demand for clarity, strength, and honesty, virtues sustained in their conversations.

Morris talks with Ralph Beer, Mary Clearman Blew, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, James Crumley, Ivan Doig, Gretel Ehrlich, Richard Ford, Molly Gloss, Ron Hansen, John Keeble, William Kittredge, David Long, Thomas McGuane, Amy Tan, and Douglas Unger. Their lives and fiction stretch from Montana to Texas, from ranches to universities, from sea level to mountain slopes.

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In interviews with fifteen contemporary writers of the American West, the author demonstrates what these widely divergent talents have in common: they all redefine what it is to be a western writer.

About the Author:

Gregory L. Morris is an associate professor of American literature at The Pennsylvania State University–Erie, The Behrend College.

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