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Author Frank, Joan, 1949-

Title Because you have to : a writing life / Joan Frank
Published Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 200 pages)
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Madness in Method; Getting It Down; Writing from the Body; Striving; Spit and Band-Aids; The Stillness of Sleeping Birds; Be Careful Whom You Tell; Never Enough; When It Is Good; Psychic Inroads, Scenic Routes, Culs-de-Sac; Writers' Networks, Writers' Lives; For My Brothers and Sisters in the Rejection Business; The Impenetrable Phenomenon; The Vastness of Geologic Time; The More We Typed, the Better We Felt; Revisiting Envy; Gumby, Frankenstein, Jakob, Rosamund; A Booth in the Marketplace; Striking a Bargain; Reading; Dinosaurs; Underwhelmed and Eccentric
A Hand in the GameEnough with the Change and Growth; Imposed Yet Familiar; If You Really Want to Hear About It; In Search of Heated Agreement; Making Art; Love of Three Oranges; Sources
Summary Frank reveals what life as a writer and member of the intellectual world has taught her through original essays
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Frank, Joan, 1949-
SUBJECT Frank, Joan, 1949- fast (OCoLC)fst01985763
Frank, Joan, 1949- fast/nic/nac
Frank, Joan 1949- gnd
Subject Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
Authors, American
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780268079765
0268079765
0268079846
9780268079840