Lorrie Moore Richard Wilbur Terry Tempest Williams
Lorrie Moore"How to Become a Writer"Biographical Here is an interview with Lorrie Moore from the online magazine Salon. The Seattle Arts & Lectures page on Lorrie Moore includes a short bio, some links, and an excerpt from another story.
Cultural Here is another writer's take on the writing life.
Bibliographical You can read another full short story by Lorrie Moore here. This pieceby Moore for the New York Times from 1990 is about whether or not the turning down of the novel American Psycho can be considered censorship.
Richard Wilbur"The Writer"Biographical and Bibliographical The Academy of American Poets has a page on Richard Wilbur, with a short biography and several poems. This page is a bit more in-depth, with comments from the writer on his work, as well as an interview.
Cultural This page offers other poems about writing.
Terry Tempest Williams"Why I Write"Biographical Coyote Clan, a site devoted
to Williams's life and work, has some background information about the
author, photos, a biography, and lots of related links. It's a great
place to start your online research. This testimony
she gave before the Senate Subcommittee on Forest & Public Lands
Management about public land in Utah contains a good bit of biographical
information about Williams.
Bibliographical Ready for some of this author's work in etext? This is an excerpt
from Williams's book Red. Do you like etext better or hard copy
better? Explain the differences between the two. The NPR radio program Insight & Outlook conducted this interview,
"The Politics of Place," with Williams in 1995. Click here
to read the transcript.
Cultural Interested in putting Williams's work into the broader cultural
context of feminist literature? This page
of literary resources about feminism and women's literature will help
you do just that. How about a classic essay that examines our relationship to nature?
Here's Henry David Thoreau's essay
"Walking." Do you like using etext in your schoolwork? What
can you do with electronic texts that's hard to do using hard copy? Interested in doing some research about environmental issues, but not
sure where to begin? This page
from the Open Directory Project has the topic subdivided into about
two dozen different aspects, and will give you plenty of good ideas.
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