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Sailing the inland sea : on writing, literature, and land

Author

Neville, Susan, 1951-

Title

Sailing the inland sea : on writing, literature, and land / Susan Neville.

Format

Book

Published

Bloomington : Quarry Books/Indiana University Press, c2007.

Description

x, 220 p. ; 24 cm.

Series

Quarry books

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-220).

Contents

• On the banks of Lost River
• Where the landscape moved like waves : an interview with Marguerite Young
• River of spirit : an interview with Dan Wakefield
• Sacred space in ordinary time
• Quaker zen : on Jessamyn West's The friendly persuasion
• Vonnegut
• Free singers/be : on Etheridge Knight
• On wildness and domesticity : an interview with Scott Russell Sanders
• The gospel according to Lish
• Imagination
• On being fierce
• Monopoly houses : on John McPhee's "The search for Marvin Gardens"
• Sailing the sea in New Harmony, Indiana : on digression in creative nonfiction
• Driving famous writers around I-465
• Leaping across the canyon : on writing
• Where's Iago?
• Saturation : on climate, politics, and sex (or, the ballad of the S.A.D. Café)
• Time capsules : on time in Willa Cather's Death comes for the archbishop
• The apprenticeship of Flannery O'Connor
• The gift of fire : a meditation on art and madness
• On common ground : Indiana literature and the land
• The economy of peace.

Subject headings

American literature--Indiana--History and criticism. Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Indiana. Authors, American--20th century--Interviews. Landscapes in literature Place (Philosophy) in literature. Setting (Literature) Authorship. Indiana--In literature. Middle West--In literature.

ISBN

0253348676 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780253348678 (cloth : alk. paper) 0253219027 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780253219022 (pbk. : alk. paper)