Conversations with Joanna Scott
Michael Lackey
ααααααΆ 2020 Β· Univ. Press of Mississippi
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Joanna Scott (b. 1960) has been one of Americaβs leading writers since the 1990s. Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Scottβs unique and probing vision and masterful writing has inspired readers to adjust their perceptions of life and of themselves. Her fiction jolts and illuminates, frequently exposing the degree to which the perverse is natural and the ordinary is twisted and demented.
Conversations with Joanna Scott presents eighteen interviews that span two decades and are as much about the process of reading as they are about writing. Witty, probing, wide-ranging, and insightful, Scottβs off-the-cuff observations about literature and life are as thought-provoking as some of the most memorable lines and scenes in her fiction. Not only shedding new light on Scottβs fiction, Conversations with Joanna Scott also illuminates enduring areas of inquiry, like the challenge of trying to make art out of sentences; the effort to recover and imagine lost stories from the past; the changing status of the literary imagination; fictional portraiture and the productive possibilities that come from blending biography and fiction; and concerns about literacy.
Joanna Scott has made her name through brilliant, award-winning novels, but this volume clarifies why she is also one of Americaβs leading public intellectuals and an astute critic of literature and culture.
Conversations with Joanna Scott presents eighteen interviews that span two decades and are as much about the process of reading as they are about writing. Witty, probing, wide-ranging, and insightful, Scottβs off-the-cuff observations about literature and life are as thought-provoking as some of the most memorable lines and scenes in her fiction. Not only shedding new light on Scottβs fiction, Conversations with Joanna Scott also illuminates enduring areas of inquiry, like the challenge of trying to make art out of sentences; the effort to recover and imagine lost stories from the past; the changing status of the literary imagination; fictional portraiture and the productive possibilities that come from blending biography and fiction; and concerns about literacy.
Joanna Scott has made her name through brilliant, award-winning novels, but this volume clarifies why she is also one of Americaβs leading public intellectuals and an astute critic of literature and culture.
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Michael Lackey is professor of English and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris. He has authored and edited nine books, mostly about the origins and evolution of the genre of biofiction. He is editor of Conversations with Jay Parini, published by University Press of Mississippi.
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