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Words are my matter : writings about life and books, 2000-2016, with a journal of a writer's week
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- ISBN: 9781618731340
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Physical Description:
iv, 316 pages ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press, [2016]
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Talks, essays, and occasional pieces -- Book introductions and notes on writers -- Book reviews -- The hope of rabbits : a journal of a writer's week. |
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Words Are My Matter : Talks, Essays, Introductions, Reviews and the Journal of a Writer's Week, 2000-2016
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Table of Contents
Words Are My Matter : Talks, Essays, Introductions, Reviews and the Journal of a Writer's Week, 2000-2016
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Foreword | p. i | |
| Talks, Essays and Occasional Pieces | p. 1 | |
| The Operating Instructions | p. 3 | |
| What It Was Like | p. 7 | |
| Genre: A Word Only a Frenchman Could Love | p. 9 | |
| "Things Not Actually Present" | p. 16 | |
| A Response, by Ansible, from Tau Ceti | p. 21 | |
| The Beast in the Book | p. 26 | |
| Inventing Languages | p. 35 | |
| How to Read, a Poem: "Gray Goose and Gander" | p. 41 | |
| On David Hensel's Submission to the Royal Academy of Art | p. 44 | |
| On Serious Literature | p. 45 | |
| Teasing Myself Out of Thought | p. 47 | |
| Living in a Work of Art | p. 51 | |
| Staying Awake | p. 66 | |
| Great Natures Second Course | p. 75 | |
| What Women Know | p. 81 | |
| Disappearing Grandmothers | p. 88 | |
| Learning to Write Science Fiction from Virginia Woolf | p. 95 | |
| The Death of the Book | p. 97 | |
| Le Guin's Hypothesis | p. 104 | |
| Making Up Stories | p. 107 | |
| Freedom | p. 113 | |
| Book Introductions and Notes on Writers | p. 115 | |
| A Very Good American Novel: H. L. Davis's Honey in the Horn | p. 116 | |
| Philip K. Dick: The Man in the High Castle | p. 120 | |
| Huxley's Bad Trip | p. 127 | |
| Stanislaw Lem: Solaris | p. 133 | |
| George MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin | p. 137 | |
| The Wild Winds of Possibility: Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake | p. 139 | |
| Getting It Right: Charles L. McNichols's Crazy Weather | p. 143 | |
| On Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago | p. 149 | |
| Examples of Dignity: Thoughts on the Work of José Saramago | p. 151 | |
| Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: Roadside Picnic | p. 165 | |
| Jack Vance: The Languages of Pao | p. 169 | |
| H. G. Wells: The First Men in the Moon | p. 173 | |
| H. G. Wells: The Time Machine | p. 179 | |
| Wells's Worlds | p. 184 | |
| Book Reviews | p. 191 | |
| Margaret Atwood: Moral Disorder | p. 192 | |
| Margaret Atwood: The Year of the Flood | p. 195 | |
| Margaret Atwood: Stone Mattress | p. 200 | |
| J. G. Ballard: Kingdom Come | p. 203 | |
| Roberto Bolaño: Monsieur Pain | p. 206 | |
| T. C. Boyle: When the Killing's Done | p. 209 | |
| Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book | p. 212 | |
| Italo Calvino: The Complete Cosmicomics | p. 215 | |
| Margaret Drabble: The Sea Lady | p. 219 | |
| Carol Emshwiller: Ledoyt | p. 222 | |
| Alan Garner: Boneland | p. 227 | |
| Kent Haruf: Benediction | p. 230 | |
| Kent Haruf: Our Souls at Night | p. 233 | |
| Tove Jansson: The True Deceiver | p. 236 | |
| Barbara Kingsolver: Flight Behavior | p. 239 | |
| Chang-Rae Lee: On Such a Full Sea | p. 243 | |
| Doris Lessing: The Cleft | p. 246 | |
| Donna Leon: Suffer the Little Children | p. 249 | |
| Yann Martel: The High Mountains of Portugal | p. 251 | |
| China Miéville: Embassytown | p. 254 | |
| China Miéville: Three Moments of an Explosion | p. 257 | |
| David Mitchell: The Bone Clocks | p. 260 | |
| Jan Morris: Hav | p. 264 | |
| Julie Otsuka: The Buddha in the Attic | p. 268 | |
| Salman Rushdie: The Enchantress of Florence | p. 272 | |
| Salman Rushdie: Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights | p. 276 | |
| José Saramago: Raised from the Ground | p. 281 | |
| José Saramago: Skylight | p. 285 | |
| Sylvia Townsend Warner: Dorset Stories | p. 288 | |
| Jo Walton: Among Others | p. 291 | |
| Jeanette Winterson: The Stone Gods | p. 294 | |
| Stefan Zweig: The Post Office Girl | p. 297 | |
| The Hope of Rabbits: A Journal of a Writer's Week | p. 301 |
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