Adventures in Pen Land: One Writer's Journey from Inklings to

Adventures in Pen Land: One Writer's Journey from Inklings to Ink (Volume 1)

She invites us along on a raucous tour of soul-sucking jobs, marriage, and a teaching career, with accompanying disquisitions on blasphemous reading preferences, â€™60s pop culture, writing workshops, and other amusing detours and distractions on the way to publication. She also shares her keen insights into the role of a Southern writer in American literary culture, the experience of writing as a mother, and the process of novel-writing as compared to a lengthy family car trip.

Featuring guest appearances by other writers such as Fred Chappell, Max Steele, and Annie Dillard plus cameos by the likes of Patty Hearst, Richard Nixon, and Bon Jovi, Adventures in Pen Land celebrates writing as a form of play that Gingher has never outgrown. The lighthearted illustrations by novelist Daniel Wallace (author of Big Fish) serve to reinforce this refreshing message as they depict one writer and her imagination growing up together.
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Adventures in Pen Land conveys a writerâ€™s sheer doggedness, with a few bones of advice tossed in along the way. Candid and irreverent, but always humane, this memoir is must reading for fans of Southern literature, students of creative writing, and anyone who canâ€™t resist the treat of reading about a writerâ€™s resilience and dedication to her craft.
Country USA
Brand University of Missouri
Manufacturer University of Missouri
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 21 colour illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780826218179
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of Missouri
Manufacturer	University of Missouri
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	21 colour illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780826218179
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Adventures in Pen Land: One Writer's Journey from Inklings to Ink (Volume 1)

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