River of Words

211 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h38min.
Silver Medalist, 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards in U.S. North-East - Best Regional Non-Fiction Category"When you truly fall in love, whether with a person or a place, you make everything else fit around it. The last eight years of my life have been a love affair with this place." — Gwendolyn Bounds, author of The Little Chapel By the RiverFor centuries, writers have drawn inspiration from the Hudson River and its surroundings. John Burroughs, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edith Wharton all lived and worked in the region immortalized by the Hudson River School of painters. In River of Words, author Nina Shengold and photographer Jennifer May explore the current crop of Hudson Valley writers, offering intimate portraits of seventy-six contemporary writers who live and work in this magnificent and storied region. Included in this rich collection of emerging and established novelists, memoirists, poets, journalists, and screenwriters are Pulitzer Prize–winners John Ashbery and the late Frank McCourt, bestselling memoirists Julie Powell and Susan Orlean, and distinguished emigres Chinua Achebe and Da Chen. What draws these writers together is not only their devotion to their art but their love and affection for the Hudson Valley. Through words and photographs, River of Words offers an inside perspective on the literary life, the craft of writing, and the pull of this distinctive American landscape.Foreword by Dennis Stock Introduction CHINUA ACHEBE SUSANNAH APPELBAUM JOHN ASHBERY SHALOM AUSLANDER SCOTT IAN BARRY BARBARA BASH HELEN BENEDICT AND STEPHEN O’CONNOR GWENDOLYN BOUNDS JON BOWERMASTER JOHN BOWERS WESLEY BROWN AKIKO BUSCH KRIS CARR BENJAMIN CHEEVER DA CHEN AND SUNNY LAURA SHAINE CUNNINGHAM JOHN DARNTON CORNELIUS EADY AND SARAH MICKLEM NICK FLYNN MARTHA FRANKEL ALISON GAYLIN FRANK D. GILROY, TONY GILROY, AND DAN GILROY JONATHAN GOULD MIKHAIL HOROWITZ MARIE HOWE MARILYN JOHNSON ROBERT KELLY LUCY KNISLEY CASEY KURTTI JAMES LASDUN NATON LESLIE ANN M. MARTIN JANA MARTIN VALERIE MARTIN AND JOHN CULLEN FRANK MCCOURT, MALACHY MCCOURT, AND ALPHIE MCCOURT DANIEL MENDELSOHN BRADFORD MORROW RON NYSWANER SUSAN ORLEAN LEILA PHILIP DANIEL PINKWATER JULIE POWELL NICOLE QUINN DAVID REES SUSAN RICHARDS CHARLEY ROSEN EDWIN SANCHEZ ED SANDERS ESMERALDA SANTIAGO GENE SANTORO JOHN SAYLES EDWARD SCHWARZSCHILD PETE SEEGER DANNY SHANAHAN JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY RUSSELL SHORTO ZACHARY SKLAR SPARROW NOVA REN SUMA HUDSON TALBOTT ABIGAIL THOMAS CORINNE TRANG JANINE POMMY VEGA LINDA VILLAROSA NANCY WILLARD DANIEL WOLFF REBECCA WOLFF KIM WOZENCRAFT Acknowledgments