Stories, essays, & memoir : a curtain of green, and other stories ; The wide net, and other stories ; The golden apples ; The bride of the innisfallen, and other stories ; Other stories ; Selected essays ; One writer's beginnings

Works. Selections. 1998

Stories, essays, and memoir

The library of America series ;

Library of America ;

Lily Daw and the three ladies -- A piece of news -- Petrified man -- The key -- Keela, the outcast Indian maiden -- Why I live at the P.O. -- The whistle -- The hitch-hikers -- A memory -- Clytie -- Old Mr. Marblehall -- Flowers for Marjorie -- A curtain of green -- A visit of charity -- Death of a traveling salesman -- Powerhouse -- A worn path.

First love -- The wide net -- A still moment -- Asphodel -- The winds -- The purple hat -- Livvie -- At the landing.

Shower of gold -- June recital -- Sir rabbit -- Moon Lake -- The whole world knows -- Music from Spain -- The wanderers.

No place for you, my love -- The burning -- The bride of the Innisfallen -- Ladies in spring -- Circe -- Kin -- Going to Naples.

Where is the voice coming from? -- The demonstrators.

A pageant of birds -- Some notes on river country -- Writing and analyzing a story -- Place in fiction -- A sweet devouring -- Must the novelist crusade? -- "Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead?" -- The little store -- Preface to Collected stories.

One writer's beginnings.

How we do it : Black writers on craft, practice, and skill

Rhythm in writing / Asking questions and excavating memory : creating complex fictional characters / When a character returns / What do you want from me / The "natives of my person" or blood is not enough : a meditation on literary kinships / Sweet, bittersweet, and joyful memories / How to write a memoir or take me to the river / Looking for a place called home / On abiding metaphors and finding a calling / How they must have felt—imaginary Tulsa : empathy and writing historical fiction / This Louisiana thing that drives me : an interview with Ernest J. Gainese / Seven brides for seven mothers / Once more with feeling / Craft capsules : An American Marriage / Craft and the art of pulling Lincoln from a hat / Ready for the world : on classroom, craft, and commanding Black space / Wrangling the line, meditations on the bop / Fiction forms : how to make fun and profundity possible in fiction / Craft / Jericho Brown in conversation with Michael Dumanis / Those words that echo...echo...echo through life / Write what you know or nah? / Nations through their mouths : silence, inner voices, and dialogue / Writing through loss and sorrow : poetry as a practice of healing / An interview with Barry Jenkins and Morgan Jerkins / Nothing new : Black poetic experiment / Yearning, despair, and outrage : writing loss in fiction / Journal / Muscularity and eros : on syntax / Plotting the plot / Re-vision / The art of revision : most of what you write should be cut

Writers on writing : collected essays from The New York times ; introduction by John Darnton.

New York times.

Poems Foster Self-Discovery / A Path Taken, with All the Certainty of Youth / Essentials Get Lost in the Shuffle of Publicity / Timeless Tact Helps Sustain a Literary Time Traveler / Yes, There Are Second Acts (Literary Ones) in American Lives / Footprints of Greatness on Your Turf / New Insights into the Novel? Try Reading Three Hundred / Returning to Proust's World Stirs Remembrance / Forget Ideas, Mr. Author. What Kind of Pen Do You Use? / In Paris and Moscow, a Novelist Finds His Time and Place / Recognizing the Book That Needs to Be Written / How to Insult a Writer / Calming the Inner Critic and Getting to Work / A Narrator Leaps Past Journalism / They Leap from Your Brain Then Take Over Your Heart / When Inspiration Stared Stoically from an Old Photograph / A Career Despite Dad's Advice / Seeing the Unimaginable Freezes the Imagination / Hemingway's Blessing, Copland's Collaboration / Returning to the Character Who Started It All / Negotiating the Darkness, Fortified by Poets' Strength / Hometown Boy Makes Waves / As Her Son Creates His Story, a Mother Waits for the Ending / The Glory of a First Book / Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle / A Famous Author Says: "Swell Book! Loved It!" / Hearing the Notes That Aren't Played / Heroism in Trying Times / Shattering the Silence, Illuminating the Hatred / Overcome by Intensity, Redeemed by Effort / A Novelist's Life Is Altered by Her Alter Ego / Computers Invite a Tangled Web of Complications / Saluting All the King's Mentors / Why Not Put Off Till Tomorrow the Novel You Could Begin Today? / The Eye of the Reporter, the Heart of the Novelist / A Retreat from the World Can Be a Perilous Journey / After Six Novels in Twelve Years, a Character Just Moves On / Fiction and Fact Collide, with Unexpected Consequences / Confession Begets Connection / A Storyteller Finds Comfort in a Cloak of Anonymity / Autumnal Accounting Endangers Happiness / Family Ghosts Hoard Secrets That Bewitch the Living / A Bedeviling Question in the Cadence of English / Still Replying to Grandma's Persistent "And Then?" / A Pseudonym Returns from an Alter-Ego Trip, with New Tales to Tell / Before a Rendezvous with the Muse, First Select the Music