Bibliograph

I, grape; or the case for fiction, essays, Brock Clarke

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I, grape; or the case for fiction, essays, Brock Clarke

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

I, grape; or the case for fiction

Oclc number

1233316899

Responsibility statement

Brock Clarke

Sub title

essays

Summary

In fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and syntax what fiction can--and can't--do

Table Of Contents

An introduction, or writing about what matters most -- What can fiction do? Not much, unless it's set in Cincinatti -- The case for meanness -- What the cold can teach us -- The hate mail I got when I wrote about my hometown -- The facts about John Cheever -- The importance of fiction in the age of memoir -- Why good literature makes us bad people -- I, Grape -- The only reason to write a novel : Paul Beatty's Slumberland -- Artifice is art : The case for Muriel Spark -- The problem of place -- The novel is dead; long live the novel -- The imagined life -- Let me tell you what it means to be from upstate New York : a loser's love song

Target audience

adult

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