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Book

Where I've been and where I'm going : essays, reviews, and prose

Call Number

  • 814 O11.1 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Plume, c1999.

Physical Description

xii, 386 p. ; 20 cm.

Contents

  • Where is an author?
  • "In olden times, when wishing was having ...": classic and contemporary fairy tales
  • Aesthetics of fear
  • Art and ethics? The F(U)tility of art
  • Romance of art: four brief pieces, Romance of art
  • First principles
  • Transformations of play
  • Artist as perpetual antagonist
  • "Zero at the bone": despair as sin and enlightenment
  • Art and "victim art"
  • On fiction in fact
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald revisited
  • Raymond Chandler: genre and "art"
  • René Magritte: art contra art
  • After the road: the art of Jack Kerouac
  • Haunted Sylvia Plath
  • Enigmatic art of Paul Bowles
  • Jean Stafford: biography as pathography
  • To Bedlam: Anne Sexton
  • Bellow's portraits
  • John Updike's rabbit
  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s colored people
  • John Edgar Wideman: Memoir and fiction
  • Exile and homeland: Brian Moore
  • Updike toward the end of time
  • Inside the locked room: P.D. James --
  • (Cont'd) Dream of justice: Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Lost in boxing
  • Miniaturist art of Grace Paley
  • American views: Elizabeth Hardwick
  • Three American gothics: Jeffrey Dahmer, November 1994
  • Timothy James McVeigh, May 1995
  • Mike Tyson, July 1997
  • "I had no other thrill or happiness": the literature of serial killers
  • "Then all collapsed": tragic Melville
  • Essential Emily Dickinson
  • "Madness of art": Henry James's "The middle years"
  • Riddle of Christina Rossetti's "Goblin market"
  • Rediscovering Harold Frederic's The damnation of Theron Ware
  • Tragic Conrad: Heart of darkness and The secret sharer
  • Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman: a celebration
  • Killer kids
  • Workings of Grace: Flannery O'Connor's "The artificial nigger"
  • Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942: painting and poem
  • Artist looks at nature: some works of Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) --
  • (Cont'd) Where are you going, where have you been? selected early short stories: afterword
  • Expensive people: The confessions of a "minor character"
  • Wonderland revisited
  • "American, abroad"
  • "Why don't you come live with me it's time"
  • Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang
  • "You petted me, and I followed you home"
  • "Mark of satan"
  • Will you always love me?
  • "Ghost girls".