Sailing the Inland Sea

by Neville, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780253219022
• ISBN10: 0253219027
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: Quarry Books

Summary

Susan Neville's collection of essays ponder writing and the "landlocked imagination"

Author Biography

Susan Neville is a native Hoosier and professor of English and creative writing at Butler University. Her books include Indiana Winter (IUP, 1994), Falling Toward Grace: Images of Religion and Culture from the Heartland (edited with J. Kent Calder) (IUP, 1998), and Iconography: A Writer's Meditation (IUP, 2003). She is also on the faculty of the Warren Wilson Program for Writers in North Carolina. She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
On the Banks of Lost River	p. 1
Where the Landscape Moved Like Waves: An Interview With Marguerite Young	p. 10
River of Spirit: An Interview With Dan Wakefield	p. 22
Sacred Space in Ordinary Time	p. 30
Quaker Zen: On Jessamyn West's the Friendly Persuasion	p. 39
Vonnegut	p. 43
Free Singers/Be: On Etheridge Knight	p. 53
On Wildness and Domesticity: An Interview With Scott Russell Sanders	p. 64
The Gospel According to Lish	p. 72
Imagination	p. 80
On Being Fierce	p. 83
Monopoly Houses: On John McPhee's "The Search For Marvin Gardens"	p. 93
Sailing the Sea in New Harmony, Indiana: On Digression in Creative Nonfiction	p. 101
Driving Famous Writers Around I-465	p. 111
Leaping Across the Canyon: On Writing	p. 119
Where's Iago?	p. 122
Saturation: On Climate, Politics, and Sex (or, the Ballad of the S.A.D. Cafe)	p. 136
Time Capsules: On Time in Willa Cather's Death Comes For the Archbishop	p. 154
The Apprenticeship of Plannery O'Connor	p. 165
The Gift of Fire: A Meditation on Art and Madness	p. 182
On Common Ground: Indiana Literature and the Land	p. 196
The Economy of Peace	p. 213
Bibliography	p. 219
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