Who says you can't teach creativity?
Ideal for individual or classroom use, ARCHITECTURES OF POSSIBILITY
theorizes and questions the often unconscious assumptions behind such
traditional writing gestures as temporality, scene, and
characterization; offers various suggestions for generating writing that
resists, rethinks, and/or expands the very notion of narrativity; visits
a number of important concerns/trends/obsessions in current writing
(both on the page and off); discusses marketplace (ir)realities; hones
critical reading and manuscript editing capabilities; and strengthens
problem-solving muscles from brainstorming to literary activism.
Exercises and supplemental reading lists challenge authors to push their
work into self-aware and surprising territory. In addition,
ARCHITECTURES OF POSSIBILITY features something entirely lacking in most
books about creative writing: more than 40 interviews with contemporary
innovative authors, editors, and publishers (including Robert Coover,
Lydia Davis, Brian Evenson, Shelley Jackson, Ben Marcus, Carole Maso,
Scott McCloud, Steve Tomasula, Deb Olin Unferth, Joe Wenderoth, and
Lidia Yuknavitch) working in diverse media, providing significant
insights into the multifaceted worlds of experimental writers' writing.
"Through examples and samples, through exercises designed to pique your
brain, even through interviews with authors, this book lays the
groundwork for the birth of new ideas. It is a honeycomb filled with
thousands of blastocysts from which you--each of you--can nurture and
grow new literary children."--Daulton Dickey
