An unsentimental education

Description:

An Unsentimental Education is a collection of candid interviews with twenty-one of our leading novelists and poets. Presented as first-person essays, the interviews are with contemporary writers who have studied or taught at the University of Chicago. The book provides an occasion for the writers to reflect on their Chicago experiences and on ideas about education in general. What education does a writer need? How can formal learning impel the writing life? What school stories or tales told out of school do Philip Roth, Hayden Carruth, Marguerite Young, George Steiner, Charles Simic, Susan Sontag, and Saul Bellow have in store and want to share?

subjects: Theory,  University of Chicago,  Intellectual life,  Interviews,  History and criticism,  American literature,  American Authors,  City and town life in literature,  Homes and haunts,  In literature,  Schrijvers,  American literature, history and criticism, 20th century,  Chicago (ill.), social life and customs,  Authors, american,  Chicago (ill.), in literature