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- A Hall of Fame for Unknown Writers: A Novel
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Texas A&M University Press
summary
After thirty-six years as book-editor in New York, Robin retires and moves back to her girlhood home in Oberlin, Ohio. She takes with her copies of items she had kept in a special file.
The items had come not from literary agents but directly from writers, reflecting their quirky, original, creative, passionate, ironic, even bizarre voices. All the items enlighten and entertain.
A Hall of Fame for Unknown Writers is Robin’s story as she reproduces the comic items and nominates them for induction into America’s first (and only) hall of fame for unknown writers, where the motto reads: “We’re in Kansas forevermore.”
“For thirty-six years, I was an editor at a family-owned (now part of a bulky conglomerate) book-publishing house in New York. In retirement, I thought it might be enjoyable to write not the Great American Novel (my authors are trying to do that) but the Fun American Novel. Over the years, I had accumulated all sorts of material that I could weave into the novel: material that came to me directly from the country’s most unforgettable unknown writers and professors.” –Robin
The items had come not from literary agents but directly from writers, reflecting their quirky, original, creative, passionate, ironic, even bizarre voices. All the items enlighten and entertain.
A Hall of Fame for Unknown Writers is Robin’s story as she reproduces the comic items and nominates them for induction into America’s first (and only) hall of fame for unknown writers, where the motto reads: “We’re in Kansas forevermore.”
“For thirty-six years, I was an editor at a family-owned (now part of a bulky conglomerate) book-publishing house in New York. In retirement, I thought it might be enjoyable to write not the Great American Novel (my authors are trying to do that) but the Fun American Novel. Over the years, I had accumulated all sorts of material that I could weave into the novel: material that came to me directly from the country’s most unforgettable unknown writers and professors.” –Robin
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. v-vi
- Chapter One - Cover Letters
- pp. 11-23
- Chapter Two - Positively Obscure
- pp. 25-32
- Chapter Three - Wichita Wok
- pp. 33-46
- Chapter Four - Gladys Princeton
- pp. 47-54
- Chapter Five - Scholars Anonymous
- pp. 55-64
- Chapter Six - Role Reversal
- pp. 65-76
- Chapter Seven - Family Values
- pp. 77-86
- Chapter Eight - Noras Galore
- pp. 87-97
- Chapter Nine - Senior Editor
- pp. 99-111
- Chapter Ten - Dream Call
- pp. 113-120
- Chapter Eleven - Publication Day
- pp. 121-126
- Chapter Twelve - Animal Television
- pp. 127-134
- Chapter Thirteen - Scoreless Wonder
- pp. 135-148
- Chapter Fourteen - Car Couplets
- pp. 149-155
- Chapter Fifteen - Doc Helen
- pp. 157-171
- Chapter Sixteen - Undertaker Special
- pp. 173-181
- Chapter Seventeen - Marketing Techniques
- pp. 183-189
- Chapter Eighteen - Lessing's Hoax
- pp. 191-198
- Chapter Nineteen - Book Fair
- pp. 199-215
- Chapter Twenty - Johnny Carson
- pp. 217-221
- Chapter Twenty-One - Hairdresser Wisdom
- pp. 223-233
- Chapter Twenty-Two - Trigger Words
- pp. 235-247
- Chapter Twenty-Three - Publishing Lessons
- pp. 249-254
- Chapter Twenty-Four - Weddings Plus
- pp. 255-270
- Chapter Twenty-Five - Book Titles
- pp. 271-279
- Chapter Twenty-Six - Alvida's Education
- pp. 281-292
- Epilogue - Three Leagues
- pp. 293-299
Additional Information
ISBN
9781680030426
Related ISBN(s)
9781680030419
MARC Record
OCLC
950053292
Pages
312
Launched on MUSE
2016-05-22
Language
English
Open Access
No