National Playwrights Directory

National Playwrights Directory
Author: Phyllis Johnson Kaye
Publisher: Waterford, Conn. : Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
Total Pages: 528
Release: 1981
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Writers Directory

Writers Directory
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1555
Release: 2016-03-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349036501

The Subversive Copy Editor

The Subversive Copy Editor
Author: Carol Fisher Saller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0226734102

Each year writers and editors submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Some are arcane, some simply hilarious—and one editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them. All too often she notes a classic author-editor standoff, wherein both parties refuse to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling: "This author is giving me a fit." "I wish that I could just DEMAND the use of the serial comma at all times." "My author wants his preface to come at the end of the book. This just seems ridiculous to me. I mean, it’s not a post-face." In The Subversive Copy Editor, Saller casts aside this adversarial view and suggests new strategies for keeping the peace. Emphasizing habits of carefulness, transparency, and flexibility, she shows copy editors how to build an environment of trust and cooperation. One chapter takes on the difficult author; another speaks to writers themselves. Throughout, the focus is on serving the reader, even if it means breaking "rules" along the way. Saller’s own foibles and misadventures provide ample material: "I mess up all the time," she confesses. "It’s how I know things." Writers, Saller acknowledges, are only half the challenge, as copy editors can also make trouble for themselves. (Does any other book have an index entry that says "terrorists. See copy editors"?) The book includes helpful sections on e-mail etiquette, work-flow management, prioritizing, and organizing computer files. One chapter even addresses the special concerns of freelance editors. Saller’s emphasis on negotiation and flexibility will surprise many copy editors who have absorbed, along with the dos and don’ts of their stylebooks, an attitude that their way is the right way. In encouraging copy editors to banish their ignorance and disorganization, insecurities and compulsions, the Chicago Q&A presents itself as a kind of alter ego to the comparatively staid Manual of Style. In The Subversive Copy Editor, Saller continues her mission with audacity and good humor.

A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers

A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers
Author: Poets and Writers, Inc. Staff
Publisher: Poets & Writers
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780913734636

Resource. THE DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN POETS & FICTION WRITERS is a required resource for any arts or presenting organization looking for literary readers, as well as for all publishers seeking to solicit work from the best American writers. In additon, writers can use the book to find the right writing mentor and connect with other writers. "When I directed my first arts program, [the Directory] delivered the addresses and phone numbers of writers I loved, but couldn't find. How many writers and audiences are robbed without the information between these covers?"--Cornelius Eady, co-founder and co-director, Cave Canem and author of Brutal Imagination.

The Gay & Lesbian Theatrical Legacy

The Gay & Lesbian Theatrical Legacy
Author: Billy J. Harbin
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2005
Genre: Actors
ISBN: 9780472098583

Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time

Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Literature of the U.S.A.

Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Literature of the U.S.A.
Author: Clarence Gohdes
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1984
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780822305927

This fifth revised edition features approximately 1,900 items, most of which are annotated. It addresses several interdisciplinary studies that have become prominent in the last decade, especially on popular culture, racial and other minorities, Native Americans and Chicanos, and literary regionalism. It allots more space to computer aids, science fiction, children's literature, literature of the sea, film and literature, and linguistic studies of American English and includes a new section on psychology. The appendix lists the biography of each of 135 deceased American authors. ISBN 0-8223-0592-5 : $22.50 (For use only in the library).

The Portable Writers Conference

The Portable Writers Conference
Author: Stephen Blake Mettee
Publisher: Linden Publishing
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2007-08-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1610351126

More than 45 agent, editor, and author-written chapters--called workshops in the book--provide instruction on the writing craft and the business of getting published.