Description |
xv, 226 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents |
[1.] Rider College lectures: Dialog, detail, and type -- Logistics of the novel -- Method and technique of the novel -- [2.] Speeches: Writing -what's in it for me? -- What makes a writer? -- Prize is a good one -- Remarks on the novel -- We all know how good we are -- Every great writer of fiction was a great social historian -- [3.] Unpublished essays and forewords: These stories were part of me -- I was determined to make plain what I had seen -- Characters in search -- My favorite room -- [4.] On F. Scott Fitzgerald: In memory of F. Scott Fitzgerald: certain aspects -- Scott Fitzgerald odds and ends -- An artist in his own fault -- [5.] Book reviews and reading lists: Good reading -- Dorothy Parker, hip pocket size -- That Benny Greenspan -- Novels novelists read -- Author's name is Hemingway -- My ten favorite plays -- [6.] Interviews and public statements: John O'Hara, who talks like his stories / Robert Van Gelder -- Only good thing I got out of booze / Earl Wilson -- Talk with John O'Hara / Harvey Breit -- How do I write? / John O'Hara -- Talk with John O'Hara / Lewis Nichols -- John O'Hara from Pottsville, Pa. / John K. Hutchens -- As From the terrace goes to press -- Mr. O'Hara / Lewis Nichols -- Appt. with O'Hara / Rollene Waterman -- Talk with the author -- Reply to questionnaire / John O'Hara -- Good writers get published / John O'Hara -- If you are going to write, nothing will stop you / John O'Hara -- A writer's look at his town, career, and future / Kenneth D. Munn -- Don't say it never happened / John O'Hara -- I have recently been putting action back into my stories / John O'Hara -- World, I think, is better off... / Arthur Pottersman -- Two blows he had to beat / Peter Grosvener -- O'Hara calls literary landscape fairly bleak / Alden Whitman. |
Subject |
O'Hara, John, 1905-1970 -- Aesthetics.
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O'Hara, John, 1905-1970. |
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Aesthetics. |
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Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century.
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Aesthetics, Modern. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Literature -- Aesthetics.
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Literature -- Aesthetics. |
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Aesthetics, American.
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Aesthetics, American. |
Added Author |
Bruccoli, Matthew J. (Matthew Joseph), 1931-2008.
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ISBN |
0809307960 : $8.95 |
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9780809307968 |
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