Gordon Lish and His Influence on Twentieth-Century American Literature: Life and Times of Captain Fiction (Hardcover)

1 They Called Him "Captain Fiction" 2 The Desperate, Disparate Lonely Male Postmodern Voice in Dear Mr. Capote 3 Memory, Jokes, and the Blank Page 4 Self-Ethnography of the Self: Life Writings, Inner Action, and the Plotless Story 5 Re-shaping the Body of Young Raymond Carver 6 Minimalizing Barry Hannah 7 The Women--Cynthia Ozick, Joy Williams, Grace Paley, Jane Smiley, Janet Kaufmann, Amy Hempel, Mary Robison 8 More Men: Don Delillo, Harold Brodkey, Richard Ford, Michael Martone 9 The Lesser, the Obscure, the Forgotten 10 Legacy