Ongoing Bibliography of Fiction, Cinema, and Essays
--Robert W. Hill

Adams, Douglas. [Rocco]

Alexie, Sherman. "Captivity" (1993). Geyh 342-45.

---. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. New York: HarperPerennial, 1994. ISBN 0-06-097624-1.

Atwood, Margaret. [Brown, Parlapiano]

Austen, Jane. [Hester]

Bach, Richard. [Herman]

Bank, Melissa. A Girls' Guide to Hunting an Fishing. [Adair]

Banks, Russell. The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. ISBN 0-06-017396-3.

Baxter, Charles. The Feast of Love. New York: Pantheon, 2000. ISBN 0-375-41019-8.

Bayley, John. Elegy for Iris [memoir]. New York: St. Martin’s, 1999. ISBN 0-312-19864-7.

Beattie, Ann. The Burning House. New York: Random, 1982; Ballantine, 1982. ISBN 0-345-35182-7.

---. "The Burning House." PC Knopf 335-48. [Parlapiano]

---. "Cinderella Waltz." PC Knopf 283-99. [Roper]

---. "Desire." PC Knopf 316-24. [Egan]

---. "Dwarf House." PC Knopf 166-74. [Rentz]

---. Falling in Place. New York: Random, 1980. ISBN 0-394-50323-6.

---. "Greenwich Time." PC Knopf 325-34. [Craig]

---. "Heaven on a Summer Night." PC Knopf 361-67. [Brown]

---. "In the White Night." PC Knopf 356-60. [Wooten]

---. "Jacklighting." PC Knopf 300-05. [Waldroup]

---. "Janus." PC Knopf 351-55. [Cooper]

---. "Learning to Fall." PC Knopf 273-82. [Smoot]

---. Park City: New and Selected Stories. New York: Knopf, 1998; Vintage-Random, 1999. ISBN 0-679-78133-1.

---. "Playback." BH Random 67-78. [White]

---. "Skeletons." PC Knopf 381-85. [Blount]

---. "Summer People." PC Knopf 368-80. [Clark]

---. "Vermont." PC Knopf 137-53. [Doughty]

---. "Windy Day at the Reservoir." PC Knopf 431-73. [Ortiz]

---. "Waiting." PC Knopf 306-15. [Gaglione]

Bottoms, David. Any Cold Jordan. Atlanta: Peachtree, 1987. ISBN 0-934601-12-7.

---. Easter Weekend. New York: Houghton, 1900. ISBN 0-395-51528-9.

Brautigan, Richard. [Latham]

Brontë, Charlotte. [Rasmussen]

Brontë, Emily. [Rasmussen]

Brown, Larry.

Brust, Steven. To Reign in Hell. New York: St. Martin's Press, July 2000. ISBN 0312870493. [Egan]

Bukowski, Charles. [Latham]

Burroughs, William. [Cottingham]

Calvino, Italo. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. 1979. Trans. William Weaver. New York: Harcourt, 1982. ISBN 0156439611.

Cartland, Barbara. ["She towers over the literary landscape like a pink marshmallow."]

Christie, Agatha. [Hester]

Clark, Mary Higgins. [Alexander]

Coleman, Carter. The Volunteer. New York: Warner, 1998. ISBN 0-446-52203-1. [Re: Usambara Mountains of Tanzania.]

Cornwell, Patricia.[Rocco]

Coupland, Douglas. [Long]

Crichton, Michael. [Alexander]

Deliverance. Dir. John Boorman. Writ. James Dickey (book and screenplay) and John Borman. Perf. Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, James Dickey, Ed Ramey. Warner, 1972.

Denby, David. “Living in America.” Rev. of House of Sand and Fog and The Cooler. New Yorker 5 Jan. 2004. 10 Jan. 2004 <www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/?040112crci_cinema>.

Dickens, Charles.

Dickey, James. Deliverance. Boston: Houghton, 1970. ISBN 0395076137.

Dickinson, Emily. [#1129: "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--"]. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. 2^nd ed. Vol. 1. Paul Lauter, et al., eds., New York: Heath, 1994. 2925. ISBN 0-669-32972-X.

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind--
[c. 1868]

Dirks, Tim. The Greatest Films. 10 Jan. 2004 <www.filmsite.org>. [Highly recommended by Roger Ebert].

Dostoevski, Fyodor.

Drake, David. [Taylor]

Dreiser, Theodore. [Alexander]

Ebert, Roger. Rev. of Annie Hall. Chicago Sun-Times 12 May 2002. 10 Jan. 2004 <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/25/DDG5Q3TFQO1.DTL>.

---. Rev. of Cold Mountain. Chicago Sun-Times 24 Dec. 2003. 10 Jan. 2004 <http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2003/12/122403.html>.

---. Rev. of Lost in Translation. Chicago Sun-Times 12 Sept. 2003. 10 Jan. 2004 <http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2003/09/091201.html>.

---. Rev. of Mona Lisa Smile. Chicago Sun-Times 19 Dec. 2003. 10 Jan. 2004 <http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2003/12/121901.html>.

---. Rev. of The Mexican. Chicago Sun-Times 2 Mar. 2001. 10 Jan. 2004 <http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2001/03/030202.html>.

Eliot, T.S.

Englander, Nathan. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. New York: Knopf, 1999; Vintage-Random, 1999. ISBN 0-375-70443-4.

Eugenides, Jeffrey. The Virgin Suicides. [Adair]

Faulkner, William. [Blount, Brown]

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. [Long]

Forster, E.M. [Craig]

Gabaldon, Diana. Outlander. New York: Dell, 1992. ISBN 0440212561. [Egan]

---. The Outlandish Companion. New York: Delacorte, 1999. ISBN 0385324138.

Gerrold, David. [Taylor]

Gillespie, Eleanor Ringel. Rev. of Mona Lisa Smile. Atlanta Journal-Constitution 10 Jan. 2004 <http://www.accessatlanta.com/movies/content/shared/movies/M/monalisasmile.html;COXnetJSessionID=AAJ1l8twizl2JdDyvPjEW6K9xUcVtHhVKHck9O35kh2JgCSiRNJX!-1250682433?urac=n&urvf=10737933431970.3640971440071862>.

Godwin, Gail.

Grisham, John. [Smith]

Haley, Alex. [Jessie]

Hannah, Barry.

Harris, Thomas. [Price]

Harrison, Harry. [Taylor]

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. [Skelly]

Herbert. Frank. Dune. [Rocco, Mossor]

Hemingway, Ernest. [Herman, Cottingham. Anderson]

Henderson, Bill, and André Bernard, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart, 1998. ISBN 1-888889-04-7.

Hesse, Herman. [Quattrocchi, Dorsey]

Holbrook, Teri. A Far and Deadly Cry. Crime Line, 1995. ISBN 0553568590. [Smoot]

---. The Grass Widow. New York: Bantam, 1996. ISBN 0553568604.

---. Sad Water. New York: Bantam, 1999 ISBN 0553577182.

Howard, Richard.

Hurston, Zora Neale. [White]

Inman, Sue.

Iris. Dir. Richard Eyre. Writ. John Bayley (book) and Richard Eyre (screenplay). Perf. Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville. BBC and Miramax, 2001.

Irving, John. The World According to Garp. 1978. New York: Modern, 1998. ISBN 0679603069.

James, Henry. [Roper, Smoot]

Jen, Gish. Mona in the Promised Land. New York: Knopf, 1996; Vintage, 1997. ISBN 0679776508. [Waldroup]

---. Typical American. New York: Plume, 1992. ISBN 0452267749.

---. Who's Irish?: Stories. New York: Knopf, 1999.

Johnson, Samuel.

Joyce, James. [Janecki]

Kafka, Franz. [Parlapiano]

Keene, Carolyn, et al. The Nancy Drew series. [Harrow]

King, Stephen. [Rasmussen, King]

LaHaye, Tim F., and Jerry B. Jenkins. The left-behind series. [Harrow]

Lamb, Wally. She's Come Undone.

---. This Much I Know Is True.

LaSalle, Mick. Rev. of Big Fish. San Francisco Chronicle 25 Dec. 2003. 10 Jan. 2004 <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/25/DDG5Q3TFQO1.DTL>.

Lasser, Scott. Battle Creek. New York: Morrow, 1999; Rob Weisbach Book, 1999 (ISBN 0688167853); HarperPerennial, 2000 (ISBN 0688177638).

Leonard, Elmore. [Mossor]

Lessing, Doris. [Egan]

Lewis, C.S. [Price, Harrow]

Lorde, Audre. "From Zami: A New Spelling of My Name" (1982). Geyh 146-52.

MacGuire, Gregory. [Clark]

Michener, James. [Wooten]

McCann, Colum. Songdogs. New York: Picador, 1995. ISBN 0-312-14741-4.

Miller, Sue.

Mitchell, Elvis. “This Santa Sobers Up, But Only For Greed.” Rev. of Bad Santa. New York Times 29 Nov. 2003. 10 Jan. 2004 <http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?title1=Bad+Santa+%28Movie%>.

---. “Triumph Tinged with Regret in Middle Earth.” Rev. of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. New York Times 16 Dec. 2003. 10 Jan. 2004 <http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=278981>.

Moody, Rick. "Forecast from the Retail Desk." New Yorker 12 June 2000: 92-99.

Morgan, Robert.

Morrison, Toni. [Smith]

Nietszche, Friedrich. [Quattrocchi]

Oates, Joyce Carol. [Clark]

O'Connor, Flannery. [Janecki]

Perretti, Frank. [Harris]

Poe, Edgar Allan. [Harris, Poe]

Pound, Ezra.

Proulx, Annie. [Clark, Hester]

Rand, Ayn. [Herman, Cottingham]

Rash, Ron.

Reaver, Chap [Herbert R. Reaver, Jr.]. Mote. New York: Delacorte, 1990 (ISBN 0-385-30163-4); Dell, 1990 (ISBN 0-440-21173-5) [Edgar Award].

Reed, Ishmael. "From Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down" (1965). Geyh 55-65.

Rice, Anne. [Rasmussen]

Rilke, Rainer Maria. [Price]

Robbins, Tom. [Gaglione]

Roth, Philip. [Blount]

Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. [Ray]

Rusk, Richard. As I Saw It. By Dean Rusk, as told to RR. [Parlapiano]

Sacks, Oliver [Wolf]. Oaxaca Journal. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2002. ISBN 0-7922-6521-1.

And there is Dick Rauh, a botanical illustrator and teacher at the New York Botanical Garden, who will draw everything of interest—both the actual-size views and his beautiful, detailed enlargements, ten or fifteen times life-size. He carries sketch pad, pens, pencils, a medley of high-power lenses, and a pocket microscope.

Dick became a botanical illustrator only after retiring from a long, successful career as a designer of film credits, and is now nearing completion of a Ph.D. in botany, so he is quite knowledgeable about the plants he is drawing. I am fascinated by the relation of knowledge to perception, and ask him about this. I tell him of the amazing plant drawings I have seen by autistic savants—drawings based purely on perception, without any botanical knowledge. Dick, however, insists that knowledge and understanding only sharpen his perceptions, do not compromise them, so he now sees plants as more interesting and more beautiful, more miraculous, than ever before, and he can convey this, emphasize one aspect or another in a way which would be impossible in a literal drawing or in a photograph, impossible without knowledge and intention. (40-41)

Dick, right in front of me, has got a tiny flower, a Lobelia, he thinks, which he is examining minutely with his lens, exclaiming at its beauty and anatomizing it at the same time. Is it the artist or the scientist in him which is aroused by the Lobelia? Both, clearly, and they are utterly fused.

It is similar with Robbin who, in the same brief break from the bus, finds a giant pinecone and is now (using my red and green pens) marking out the way its scales are arranged in orderly spirals about the cone, and arranged in fixed numerical series. “If you don’t know about Fibonacci series, how can you truly appreciate a pinecone?” he says. (He had earlier made a similar comment about the logarithmic spirals of fern croziers or fiddleheads.)

“Neat,” says Nancy Bristow, examining the cone. Nancy is a mathematician and math teacher by profession, but a botanist and a bird-watcher by avocation. I ask her what she means by “neat.”

“Elegant . . . perfectly organized . . . symmetrical . . . complete . . . the aesthetic and the mathematical combined.” She searches for different words, different concepts—now that I have forced her to examine her exclamation “Neat!”

“Is the Goldbach conjecture neat?” I ask “Is Fermat’s last theorem?”

“Well,” Nancy says, “the proof is messy in the extreme.”

“What about the periodic table?” I ask.

“That,” says Nancy, “is particularly neat, as neat as a pinecone, with the sort of neatness that only God, or genius, can construct—divinely economical, the realization of the simplest mathematical laws.” Nancy and I both fall silent, surprised at the sudden exploration forced on us by the simple word “neat.” (138-39)

Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. [Latham, Skelly, Adair]

Sanders, Dori.

Scott, A.O. “Tales of Love, the True and the Not-So-True.” New York Times 7 Nov. 2003. 10 Jan. 2004 <http://movies2.nytimes.com/2003/11/07/movies/07ACTU.html?ex=1073883600&en=fc6c4e7e35f84988&ei=5070>.

Shakespeare, William. King Lear.

---. A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Shange, Ntozake. "Indigo: From Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo" (1982). Geyh 43-54.

Shelley, Mary. [Roper]

Shelnutt, Eve.

Shields, Carol. Dressing Up for the Carnival. New York: Viking, 2000. ISBN 0-670-88921-0.

Esp. "Absence" (92-95), "Invention" (146-55), and "Eros" (181-95).

---. "The Next Best Kiss." Dressing Up for the Carnival 162-80. [Hill]

---. Larry’s Party. London: Fourth Estate, 1997. ISBN 1-85702-616-0.

---. The Stone Diaries. New York: Penguin, 1995. ISBN 014023313X.

---. Swann. New York: Penguin, 1990. ISBN 0140134298.

---. Unless. London: Fourth Estate, 2002. ISBN 0-00-714107-6.

I thought I understood something of a novel’s architecture, the lovely slope of predicament, the tendrils of surface detail, the calculated curving upward into inevitability, yet allowing spells of incorrigibility, and then the ending, a corruption of cause and effect and the gathering together of all the characters into a framed operatic circle of consolation and ecstasy, backlit with fibre-optic gold, just for a moment on the second-to-last page, just for an atomic particle of time. (9)

I have no idea what will happen in this book. It is a mere abstraction at the moment, something that’s popped out of the ground like the rounded snout of a crocus on a cold lawn. I’ve stumbled up against this idea in my clumsy manner, and now the urge to write it won’t go away. This will be a book about lost children, about goodness, and going home and being happy and trying to keep the poison of the printed pag in perspective. I’m desperate to know how the story will turn out. (11)

Singer, Isaac Bashevis. [Long]

Smith, Lee. [Janecki]

Sontag, Susan. [Quattrocchio]

Sorkin, Aaron. [Skelly]

Spark, Muriel. "A Hundred and Eleven Years without a Chauffeur." New Yorker 5 June 2000: 78-79.

Steadman, Mark.

Steel, Danielle. [Smith]

Steinbeck, John. [Dorsey]

Stephenson, Neal. [Mossor]

Straub, Peter. [Rasmussen]

Swift, Jonathan.

Tan, Amy. [Ortiz]

Thoreau, Henry David. [Anderson]

Tod, Jeremy Noel. ”The Sugared Pill.” Rev. of Nine Horses, by Billy Collins. Guardian Unlimited 12 Apr. 2003. 10 Jan. 2004 <http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,934100,00.html>.

Tolkien, J.R.R. [Harris]

Tolstoy, Leo.

Turow, Scott.

Twain, Mark.

Tyler, Ann. [Gaglione, Ortiz]

Updike, John.

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.

Walker, Alice. [Jessie]

West, Michael Lee. Crazy Ladies.

Wharton, Edith. [Craig]

Wilde, Oscar. [Ray]

Wilkinson, Sylvia.

Wolfe, Thomas. [Dorsey]

Wright, Richard. [White]

Ongoing Bibliography of Fiction-Writing, Anthologies,
and Narrative Theory
(Assimilating a Bibliography Prepared by Jane Hill
to Teach English 809, Spring 1996, State University of West Georgia)

Bailey, Tom, ed. On Writing Short Stories. Fwd. Tobias Wolff. New York: Oxford UP, 2000. ISBN 0-19-512272-0.

Chapters by Francine Prose, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Bailey, Frank Conroy, Andre Dubus, Robert Coles, C. Michael Curtis. Stories by Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, Tillie Olsen, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, Cynthia Ozick, John Updike, Raymond Carver, Louise Erdrich, Tim O'Brien, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Boswell, Andre Dubus, Susan Minot, Tobias Wolff.

Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich. "Discourse in the Novel." In The Dialogic Imagination. Ed. Michael Holquist. Trans. Michael Holquist and Caryl Emerson. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981.

Bal, Mieke. "Focalization." In Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1985. 100-11.

Banfield, Ann. "Written Composition and the Emergence of Narrative Style." In Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1982. 243-53.

Barth, John. "The Literature of Exhaustion." Atlantic (1967).

Barthes, Roland. "Writing and the Novel." In Writing Degree Zero. Trans. Annette Lavers and Colin Smith. New York: Hill, 1969.

Baxter, Charles. Burning Down the House. St. Paul: Graywolf, 1997. ISBN 1-55597-270-5.

Bérubé, Michael. "From Public Access" (1994). Geyh 595-603.

Bluestone, George. Novels into Film. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1957.

Boggs, Joseph M., and Dennis W. Petrie. The Art of Watching Films. 5^th ed. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 2000 ISBN 0-7674-1306-7.

Book:The Magazine for the Reading Life. [Doughty]

Booth, Wayne C. "Distance and Point-of-View: An Essay in Classification." In Essays in Criticism. London: Oxford UP, 1961. 60-79.

---. The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction. Berkeley: U of California P, 1976.

Brandy, Leo. The World in a Frame: What We See in films. Garden City, NY: Anchor, 1976.

Brooks, Peter. Reading for Plot. New York: Knopf, 1984.

Chatman, Seymour. Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1978.

Cohn, Dorrit. Transparent Minds. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1978.

Crane, R. S. "The Concept of Plot and the Plot of Tom Jones." In Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern. Ed. R. S. Crane. Chicago: U of Chicago P.

Currie, Mark, ed. Metafiction. 1995. Longman Critical Readers. Addison, 1996. ISBN 0582212928.

Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. "What Is a Minor Literature?" In Kafka. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1986. 16-27.

Denby, David, ed. Awake in the Dark: An Anthology of American Film Criticism, 1915 to the Present. New York: Vintage: 1977.

Doubletake.

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. Writing beyond the Ending. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1985.

Ellison, Emily, and Jane Hill, eds. Our Mutual Room: Modern Literary Portraits of the Opposite Sex. Atlanta: Peachtree, 1987. ISBN 0-934601-32-1.

Ellison, Ralph. "Hidden Name and Complex Fate." In Shadow and Act. New York: Random, 1964.

Five Points.

Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. New York: Harcourt, 1927.

Freedman, Ralph. The Lyrical Novel: Studies in Hermann Hesse, André Gide, and Virginia Woolf. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1963. ISBN 0-691-01267-9.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Signifying Monkey. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.

Genette, Gerard. "Time and Narrative in A la recherche du temps perdu." In Aspects of Narrative. Ed. J. Hillis Miller. New York: Columbia UP, 1970.

Georgia Review.

Geyh, Paula, Fred G. Leebron, and Andrew Levy, eds. Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology. New York: Norton, 1998. ISBN 0-393-31698-X.

Glatzer, Robert. Beyond Popcorn: A Critic’s Guide to Looking at Films. Spokane: Eastern Washington UP, 2001.

Haberski, Raymond J. It’s Only a Movie!: Films and Critics in American Culture. Lexington: U of Kentucky, 2001.

Hill, Jane, ed. Street Songs 1: New Voices in Fiction. Atlanta: Longstreet, 1990. ISBN 0-929264-36-3.

Esp. Jane Hill's "Mario Pasco, the Wow Principle, and the Good Fight: An Introduction" (1-13), Louis Berney's "News of the World" (43-60), Elizabeth Graver's "Square Dance" (78-96), Wally Lamb's "Astronauts" (181-202), Scott Lasser's "The Minor Leagues" (203-14), and Michael Lee West's "Obstetrics" (317-36).

---, ed. You Haven't to Deserve: A Gift to the Homeless: Fiction by 21 Writers. Atlanta: Task Force for the Homeless/Longstreet, 1991. ISBN 0-9628530-2-X.

Stories by Raymond Andrews, Tina McElroy Ansa, Michael Bishop, David Bottoms, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Pam Durban, Emily Ellison, Paul Hemphill, Rebecca Hill, Mary Hood, Greg Johnson, Terry Kay, Warren Leamon, Judson Mitcham, Linda Chandler Munson, Eugenia Price, Ferrol Sams, Louise Shivers, Anne Rivers Siddons, Alice Walker, and Philip Lee Williams.

hooks, bell. "Postmodern Blackness" (1990). Geyh 624-31.

Hoppenstand, Gary, ed. Popular Fiction: An Anthology. The Longman Literature and Culture Series. Gen. Ed. Charles I. Schuster. New York: Longman-Addison, 1998. ISBN 0-321-01164-3.

Re: Horror, Romance, Science Fiction, Detective, Adventure, and "Critical Perspectives on Popular Fiction."

Irving, John. My Movie Business: A Memoir. New York: Random, 1999. ISBN 0-375-50368-4.

Re: The Cider House Rules.

---. Trying to Save Piggy Sneed. New York: Arcade, 1996. ISBN 1559703237.

Keyes, Ralph. The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear. New York: Holt, 1996. ISBN 0805031898.

7 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
Good for some; not at all for others. , February 23, 2000
Reviewer: villainess from Ithaca, NY

The good: Some people genuinely are scared to write, and it's sure to be a comfort to them to know that some of the greats felt the same way. Many of the anecdotes are very entertaining, and the writing style flows, making for an easy read. And the author, to his credit, gets no where near as self-help schlocky as the title might seem to imply.

The bad: Not everyone is scared to write, but you wouldn't know that from reading this book. There's nothing abnormal about a self-confident writer, and we don't deserve the inference that brash writing is just a front. Also, the book puts way to much emphasis on writing as autobiographical confession. Those who prefer not to use that style may find little that they can directly relate to. Finally, the most genuine and significant fear involved in writing - the fear that sets in after you've been rejected repeatedly - is actually discussed relatively little. But, overall, if you have an unstrained budget and a craving to know more about the writing life by all means buy this book (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/flex-sign-in/ref=cm_rate_rev/102-8802212-6771320#rated-review, 29 July 2000).

Lodge, David. The Art of Fiction. New York: Penguin, 1992. ISBN 0-14-017492-3.

Monaco, James. How to Read a Film: The Art, Technology, Language, History, and Theory of Film and Media. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1981. ISBN 0-19-502802-3.

The New Yorker.

Peacock, Richard Beck. The Art of Movie-Making: Script to Screen. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2001. ISBN 0-13-087942-8.

Richter, David. Narrative/Theory. White Plains, NY: Longman, 1996.

This excellent anthology of essays and excerpts from longer works provides a comprehensive overview of theories of the novel as a narrative structure, providing both historical and contemporary insights. Richter suggests that current thinking about narrative falls into one of two camps: structural narratology ("concerned, first and foremost, with what narrative is") and rhetorical narratology ("concerned with what it does or how it works").[--JH]

Roof, Judith. Reproductions of Reproduction: Imaging Symbolic Change. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Sayles, John. Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie Matewan. Boston: Houghton, 1987. ISBN 0-395-45399-2.

Shelnutt, Eve. The Writing Room: Keys to the Craft of Fiction and Poetry. Atlanta: Longstreet, 1989. ISBN 0-929264-12-6.

Thoughtful, wise, sometimes densely written explorations and explanations of poets' and fiction writers' craft. Excellent lists of fiction writers and their works, with special attention to writers from whom one may learn craft. Nothing simplistic here, no band-aids or quick-fix gimmicks--Shelnutt is a very demanding and very rewarding teacher.--RWH

Stevick, Philip. Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction. New York: Free, 1971. ISBN 002931500X.

 Tranke, Elizabeth G. Dreaming Identities: Class, Gender, and Generation in 1980s Hollywood Movies. Boulder: Westview, 1992.

Žižec, Slavoj. Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out. New York: Routledge, 1992. ISBN 0-415-90482-x.

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