THE WRITER ON HER WORK, Companion Volume II, New Essays in New Territory, includes essays from: Diane Ackerman, Margaret Atwood, Anita Desai, Harriet Doerr, Rita Dove, Gretel Ehrlich, Carolyn Forché, Kaye Gibbons, Natalia Ginzburg, Patricia Hampl, Linda Hogan, Diane Johnson, Elizabeth Jolley, Maxine Kumin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jan Morris, Bharati Mukherjee, Elena Poniatowska, Luisa Valenzuela and Joy Williams.
“I chose to begin the first volume of The Writer on Her Work with a quote from Louise Bogan: “in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.” Now, ten years later, I think about how that quote seems especially prophetic for our current time. I think, too, about how this book, like the first volume, began because I needed to read it.”
– Janet Sternburg
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