A STORY LARGER THAN MY OWN: WOMEN WRITERS LOOK BACK ON THEIR LIVES AND CAREERS

Book ID/图书代码： 13560014B74762

English Summary/英文概要： In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. “Lines on a Half-Painted House” made it into the magazine—but not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband’s employer, verification that the poem was her original work. Kumin, who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, was part of a groundbreaking generation of women writers who came of age during the midcentury feminist movement. By challenging the status quo and ultimately finding success for themselves, they paved the way for future generations of writers. In A Story Larger than My Own, Janet Burroway brings together Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of this generation to reflect on their writing lives. The essays and poems featured in this collection illustrate that even writers who achieve critical and commercial success experience a familiar pattern of highs and lows over the course of their careers. Along with success comes the pressure to sustain it, as well as a constant search for subject matter, all too frequent crises of confidence, the challenges of a changing publishing scene, and the difficulty of combining writing with the ordinary stuff of life—family, marriage, jobs. The contributors, all now over the age of sixty, also confront the effects of aging, with its paradoxical duality of new limitations and newfound freedom. Taken together, these stories offer advice from experience to writers at all stages of their careers and serve as a collective memoir of a truly remarkable generation of women.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1955年，玛克辛•库敏向《星期六晚邮报》投稿了一首诗作。在尚未通过库敏的丈夫向她确认诗歌原创性的情况下，“Lines on a Half-Painted House”就被刊登上了杂志。库敏也随后获得了普利策诗歌奖，她代表的是在20世纪中期女权运动中成年的新一代划时代女性作家。通过挑战现状并最终找到属于她们自己的成功，这些女性作家们也为未来一代的作家铺平了道路。在《不仅是我的故事》中，珍妮特•伯罗韦将库敏、朱莉亚•阿尔瓦雷斯、简•史迈利、埃里卡•容以及其他十五位那个年代代表成名女作家的故事进行整合，对她们的写作生活进行反思。该选集中收入的文论与诗歌将向读者们展示，即便是这些已经收获声望取得商业成功的作家们也都有着十分相似的经历，在她们的职业生涯中不乏起起伏伏。伴随着成功而来的，是维持成功状态的压力，同时还必须不断地寻求写作素材，频繁被触发的自信危机，不断变化的出版现状带来的挑战，以及将写作与平凡生活的方方面面相结合--家庭、婚姻、工作。本选集中的作家均已年过花甲，开始面对老年所带来的影响，然而这一影响也是双刃剑，虽然伴随着新的局限，但也不乏全新的自由。整合成集后，这些故事将为读者们提供从人生经历到作家创作生涯不同阶段的建议，作为群体回忆，本书折射出了真正优秀卓绝的一代女性。（DC）

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About the Author/作者介绍： 珍妮特•伯罗韦，作家，著有八部小说，其中包括The Buzzards和Raw Silk；两部畅销工具书《小说写作》和《想象写作》；以及即将出版的回忆录Losing Tim。作者还曾创作多部剧本，短篇故事，诗歌集以及儿童图书。她是佛罗里达州立大学罗伯特•O•洛顿杰出荣誉教授，主要生活在日内瓦湖、威斯康辛和芝加哥等地。

Janet Burroway is the author of eight novels, including The Buzzards and Raw Silk; two best-selling textbooks, Writing Fiction and Imaginative Writing; and the forthcoming memoir Losing Tim. She is also the author of numerous plays, short stories, poetry collections, and children’s books. She is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at Florida State University and divides her time between Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and Chicago.

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