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Because You Have To: A Writing Life Paperback - 2012

by Joan Frank

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Part memoir, part handbook, part survey of the contemporary literary scene, Joan Frank's Because You Have To: A Writing Life is a collection of essays that, taken together, provide a walking tour of the writing life. Frank's aim is to form a coherent vision, one that may provide some communion about realities of the writer's vocation that have struck her as rarely revealed.

Frank offers what she has learned as a writer not only to other writers, but to those to whom good writing matters. Her insights about "thinking on paper" are never dogmatic or pontifical; rather, they are cordial and intellectually welcoming.

Original, witty, and practical, Frank ably steers us through the journey of her own life as a writer, as well as through the careers and work of other writers. Her subjects range widely, from the "boot camp" conditioning of marketing work to squaring off with rejection and envy; from sustaining belief in art's necessity to the baffling subjectivity of literary perception and the magical books that nourish writers. Frank's personal journey is wonderfully told, so that what in these essays is particular becomes useful and universal.

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  • Title Because You Have To: A Writing Life
  • Author Joan Frank
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 214
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Notre Dame Press
  • Publication date 2012-09-15
  • Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780268028930 / 0268028931
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, Frank, Joan
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012019016
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Joan Frank is the author of two story collections--In Envy Country (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize and the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award, and Boys Keep Being Born--and three novels: Make It Stay, The Great Far Away, and Miss Kansas City, which won the Michigan Literary Fiction Award. She lives in northern California.

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