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The Writer as Celebrity : Intimate Interviews / Maralyn Lois Polak.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : M. Evans, 1986.Description: xiv, 227 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0871314770
Uniform titles:
  • Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphie, Penns. : 1969)
  • Philadelphia inquirer (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1969)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.90054 19 POL
Summary: Isaac Asimov: Revenge of the Nerd. Beryl Bainbridge: Her Novels Nail Her Parents to the Wall. John Barth: Can This Be Our Best Writer? Judy Blume: Growing Up With Sex. Robert Bly: "Why Do I Write? Why Do You Take a Shower?" Erma Bombeck: "I Never Asked for Anything". Rita Mae Brown: Life in Rubyfruit Jungle. Art Buchwald: Can Humor Survive Analysis? Susan Cheever: It's all in the Family. Eldridge Cleaver: The New Passion of Eldridge Cleaver. Shirley Conran: She Wrote a Book She Won't Let Her Own Mother Read. James Dickey: "Have a Beer with Your Soul." E.L. Doctorow: Ragtime's E.L. Doctorow Hits Some Sour Notes. Dick Francis: Writing at a Fast Clip. J.P. Donleavy: Tales from the Graveyard. Marilyn French: Not Much Use for Men. Betty Friedan: "I'm Not Any Beauty Contest Winner," Says Feminism's Matriarch Emerita. Buckminster Fuuller: From Crackpot to Genius. Charles Fuller: He Grew up with Words. Paul Fussell: In a Class by Himself. Allen Ginsberg: Still Howling after all these Years. Gunter Grass: Between God and HItler. Bob Greene: America is His Beat. Germaine Greer: A Satisfied Woman. Mary Heminway: And Now She's Telling her Story -- at Least some of It. Rona Jaffe: The Torture Academy Stretched Her Mind. Jerzy Kosinski: "Not Everyone is Tolstoy." Maxine Kumin: Ode to a Sad Childhood. Judith Martin: She Concentrates on Manners; It's too Late for Morals. Bobbile Ann Mason: Kentucky on Her Mind. Tom Mchale: "The World's Worst Irishman." William Least heat Moon: The Irish Osage. Tim O'Brien: "I Never thought They'd Send Me to Fight. Toby Olson: The Real Reward of Writing. Grace Paley: A Gray-haired Little Girl's Short Story. S.J. Perelman: He's AAA"America's Lampoonist Laureate." Marge Piercy: Confessions of a Novelist. Miguel Pinero: Failure as a Criminal, Success as an Artist. Sonia Sanchez: The Muse Used to Stutter. Alexandra Sheedy: She Just Wants to be Famous. Jean Shepherd: What's Jean Shepherd Got Against Woody Allen? Studs Terkel: He Celebrates the Uncelebrated. Paul Theroux: The English Girl and Other adventures. Calvin Trillin: Calvin Trillin is Still Playing with his Food. Andy Warhol: The Pope of Pop Art.
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"These interviews originally appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday magazine"--T.p. verso.

Isaac Asimov: Revenge of the Nerd. Beryl Bainbridge: Her Novels Nail Her Parents to the Wall. John Barth: Can This Be Our Best Writer? Judy Blume: Growing Up With Sex. Robert Bly: "Why Do I Write? Why Do You Take a Shower?" Erma Bombeck: "I Never Asked for Anything". Rita Mae Brown: Life in Rubyfruit Jungle. Art Buchwald: Can Humor Survive Analysis? Susan Cheever: It's all in the Family. Eldridge Cleaver: The New Passion of Eldridge Cleaver. Shirley Conran: She Wrote a Book She Won't Let Her Own Mother Read. James Dickey: "Have a Beer with Your Soul." E.L. Doctorow: Ragtime's E.L. Doctorow Hits Some Sour Notes. Dick Francis: Writing at a Fast Clip. J.P. Donleavy: Tales from the Graveyard. Marilyn French: Not Much Use for Men. Betty Friedan: "I'm Not Any Beauty Contest Winner," Says Feminism's Matriarch Emerita. Buckminster Fuuller: From Crackpot to Genius. Charles Fuller: He Grew up with Words. Paul Fussell: In a Class by Himself. Allen Ginsberg: Still Howling after all these Years. Gunter Grass: Between God and HItler. Bob Greene: America is His Beat. Germaine Greer: A Satisfied Woman. Mary Heminway: And Now She's Telling her Story --
at Least some of It. Rona Jaffe: The Torture Academy Stretched Her Mind. Jerzy Kosinski: "Not Everyone is Tolstoy." Maxine Kumin: Ode to a Sad Childhood. Judith Martin: She Concentrates on Manners; It's too Late for Morals. Bobbile Ann Mason: Kentucky on Her Mind. Tom Mchale: "The World's Worst Irishman." William Least heat Moon: The Irish Osage. Tim O'Brien: "I Never thought They'd Send Me to Fight. Toby Olson: The Real Reward of Writing. Grace Paley: A Gray-haired Little Girl's Short Story. S.J. Perelman: He's AAA"America's Lampoonist Laureate." Marge Piercy: Confessions of a Novelist. Miguel Pinero: Failure as a Criminal, Success as an Artist. Sonia Sanchez: The Muse Used to Stutter. Alexandra Sheedy: She Just Wants to be Famous. Jean Shepherd: What's Jean Shepherd Got Against Woody Allen? Studs Terkel: He Celebrates the Uncelebrated. Paul Theroux: The English Girl and Other adventures. Calvin Trillin: Calvin Trillin is Still Playing with his Food. Andy Warhol: The Pope of Pop Art.

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