Crash Course: Essays from Where Writing and Life Collide Contributor(s): Black, Robin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1938126718 ISBN-13: 9781938126710 Publisher: Engine Books OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
Dewey: 814.6 |
LCCN: 2016934879 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.6" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 200 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Robin Black's path through loss and survival delivered her to the writer's life. Agoraphobia, the challenges of parenting a child with special needs, and the legacy of a formidable father all shaped that journey. In these deeply personal and instructive essays, the author of the internationally acclaimed If I loved you, I would tell you this and Life Drawing explores the making of art through the experiences of building a life. Engaging, challenging, and moving, Crash Course is full of insight into how to write--and why. From "Autumn, 1972, A Moment at Which I Became a Writer": I sense, even now, the reverberations of a kind of shattering of my foundation and a quick rebuild, a change at a molecular level of who I understood myself to be. No longer someone who could look at another person without wondering what their life was like, but someone with a new curiosity about what people's stories might actually be. Robin Black is the author of the story collection, If I loved you, I would tell you this and the novel Life Drawing, both critically acclaimed, and both published in multiple languages. She has developed a loyal, enthusiastic following for her essays on life and writing, online and in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and O Magazine. She lives with her husband in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the house is always open for their three grown children. |