Wonderlands : essays on the life of literature /
"Searching and erudite new essays on writing from the author of Burning Down the House. Charles Baxter's new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the House and The Art of Subtext. In the mold of those books, Baxter shares years of wisdom and...
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Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Graywolf Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- The request moment, or "There's something I want you to do"
- Inventories and undoings
- Things about to disappear: the writer as curator
- Captain happen: some notes on narrative urgency
- Lush life
- Two interludes
- What happens in hell
- All the dark nights : a letter
- Charisma and fictional authority: nine fragments toward an essay
- Wonderlands
- Toxic narratives, and the bad workshop
- On the plausibility of dreams
- Notes on the dramatic image: an essay in six parts.