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Listening to the Page: Adventures in Reading and Writing Paperback - 2002

by Alan Cheuse

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In 1979 Cheuse wrote a freelance magazine piece about a new publicly funded broadcast network called National Public Radio, and a relationship of reviewer and radio was born. In "Listening to the Page, " Cheuse takes a look back at some of the thousands of books he has read, reviewed, and loved.

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When he sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1979, Alan Cheuse was hardly new to the literary world. He had studied at Rutgers under John Ciardi, worked at the Breadloaf Writing Workshops with Robert Frost and Ralph Ellison, written hundreds of reviews for Kirkus Reviews, and taught alongside John Gardner and Bernard Malamud at Bennington College for nearly a decade. Soon after the New Yorker story appeared, Cheuse wrote a freelance magazine piece about a new, publicly funded broadcast network called National Public Radio, and a relationship of reviewer and radio was born.

In Listening to the Page, Alan Cheuse takes a look back at some of the thousands of books he has read, reviewed, and loved, offering retrospective pieces on modern American literary figures such as Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Bernard Malamud, and John Steinbeck, as well as contemporary writers like Elizabeth Tallent and Vassily Aksyonov. Other essays explore landscape in All the Pretty Horses, the career of James Agee, Mario Vargas Llosa and naturalism, and the life and work of Robert Penn Warren.

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On a cold, rainy Washington night in December, this traveler drove over to the Congressional Office Building on Capitol Hill to attend the Christmas party of a local literacy council.

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  • Title Listening to the Page: Adventures in Reading and Writing
  • Author Alan Cheuse
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York, NY
  • Publication date November 15, 2002
  • ISBN 9780231122719 / 0231122713
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.94 x 5.5 x 0.73 in (22.71 x 13.97 x 1.85 cm)
  • Reading level 1400
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Dewey Decimal Code 801

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Alan Cheuse is a fiction writer, a long-time critic, and the book commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. He is the author of eight books including The Grandmothers'Club, The Light Possessed, The Tennessee Waltz and Other Stories, and the memoir Fall Out of Heaven. He has written for many national publications and has taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan, among other places. He currently serves as a member of the writing program at George Mason University.

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