"I started this meditation on the first day of Lent. I hope to keep going every day until Easter. Each day I go fishing in the water of this internal voice. This week the water's still, this angled pen a blue sail; the hook is lazy in the estuary, the water the color of lapis. So what if I don't catch a fish? I said that I would fish; that's all I promised. I bait the hook with each day's discipline. I have no guarantees that there is anything at all to catch in these particular waters, that something beneath the surface won't grab my pen and pull me under." -from Iconography
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"I started this meditation on the first day of Lent. I hope to keep going every day until Easter. Each day I go fishing in the water of this intern...
Calling on the image of the Midwest s vanished inland sea, Susan Neville has written a compelling collection of essays that ponder writing and the "landlocked imagination." The essays range from interviews with Indiana writers Kurt Vonnegut, Scott Sanders, Marguerite Young, and others, to discussions on techniques grounded in a Midwestern sensibility. As director of Butler University s Visiting Writers Series, Neville has had the rare opportunity to converse with such literary giants as Salman Rushdie, Ray Bradbury, and Toni Morrison, and some of those exchanges have been incorporated into...
Calling on the image of the Midwest s vanished inland sea, Susan Neville has written a compelling collection of essays that ponder writing and the ...
A collection of short stories by Susan Neville. The house referred to in the title is a specific place in midwestern American folklore, but the blue also refers to the blue of the globe as seen from space and the blue lights that flicker behind closed eyelids in the house of the imagination.
A collection of short stories by Susan Neville. The house referred to in the title is a specific place in midwestern American folklore, but the blue a...
"Neville's observations on inner and outer worlds deserve a large readership." -Studies in Short Fiction
"Blending fictional and reportorial technique, Ms. Neville unwinds a tapestry of the Indiana seasons... in scene after remarkable scene she succeeds in disturbing and undermining one's calm.... moving... " -Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
..". shrewedly perceptive studies of the poetics of place... Neville pierces the heart of this 'heart of the country, ' unloosing disquieting images and poignant scenes that cling to your memory."-Belles Lettres
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"Neville's observations on inner and outer worlds deserve a large readership." -Studies in Short Fiction
Susan Neville combines a gift for language with a subtle eye and a fine instinct for character. Her characters--and her settings--are, most of them, midwestern. There is the staunchly midwestern wife in the story "Kentucky People," for instance. She was born in this house in this Indiana town, a world far removed from people like Mrs. Lovelace, next door, transient people "who have followed the industrial revolution from Kentucky to Indiana and most of whom are now in Texas." Nothing really out of the way has ever happened to her. Now she "shivers with excitement" when she is called upon...
Susan Neville combines a gift for language with a subtle eye and a fine instinct for character. Her characters--and her settings--are, most of them...
