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Synopsis
Now writers or would-be writers can read the most provocative and the most useful lectures on life and craft presented at such select conferences as Bread Loaf, the Wesleyan Writers' Conference, and the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. In these addresses, Ellen Bryant Voigt, X. J. Kennedy, Francine Prose, and Marvin Bell, among others, give intimate accounts of the struggle to create something worthy of being published and read.
Booknews
Douglas Fairbanks, John Barrymore, Rudolph Valentino, Lon Chaney and the characters they portrayed are brought into focus to explore the meaning and cinematic expression of manhood in the US during the long decade between the Great War and the Great Crash. Illustrated with movie stills. Paper edition (10321), $17.50. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)