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Say It Hot, Volume II: Industrial Strength: Essays on American Writers

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By (author): Eric Miles Williamson

Say It Hot Volume II: Industrial Strength is a collection of essays on American poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and issues of interest to artists and academics. A companion volume to Say It Hot, these essays are brutally honest and acutely intelligent.

From the book: Literary authors these days no longer make livings off their work. Their books are not to be found in bookstores, and the books are rarely printed by major New York publishing houses. No one reads their works except for other literary authors and the professors who are evaluating their tenure and promotion folders at the colleges and universities at which they are employed, and its a minor miracle if a literary book from a small press sells a thousand copies. Fiction writers from wealth write about writing or they write about the ridiculous sufferings of the rich. Fiction writers from the lower classes write about the primordial filth from which theyve physically escaped but from which theyll never mentally be able to leave behind. Like war veterans, people whove fought it out in the miasma of poverty and blue- collar hell can never get the stink out of their skins, try as they may. Just like people who havent been to war can spot vets who have, middle-class people and the rich can spot people whove grown up poor, no matter what their position in life or the quality of their designer suits. Those suits just dont fit right, and the neckties make them fidget and sweat. What the well-heeled authors and the working-class writers have in common is that theyve been trained not to pronounce moral judgment. See more
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  • Weight: 390g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Oct 2015
  • Publisher: Texas Review Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781680030020

About Eric Miles Williamson

Eric Miles Williamson is author of three internationally acclaimed novels a short story collection which won the PEN/Oakland Award and three books of criticism. He is Fiction Editor of Texas Review Senior Editor of Boulevard and Associate Editor of American Book Review. Professor of English at the University of Texas Pan American USA he lives in McAllen Texas.

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