{"product_id":"conversations-with-joanna-scott-9781496829337","title":"Conversations with Joanna Scott","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael Lackey\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoanna Scott (b. 1960) has been one of America's leading writers since the 1990s. Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Scott's unique and probing vision and masterful writing has inspired readers to adjust their perceptions of life and of themselves. Her fiction jolts and illuminates, frequently exposing the degree to which the perverse is natural and the ordinary is twisted and demented. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eConversations with Joanna Scott\u003c\/i\u003e presents eighteen interviews that span two decades and are as much about the process of reading as they are about writing. Witty, probing, wide-ranging, and insightful, Scott's off-the-cuff observations about literature and life are as thought-provoking as some of the most memorable lines and scenes in her fiction. Not only shedding new light on Scott's fiction, \u003ci\u003eConversations with Joanna Scott\u003c\/i\u003e also illuminates enduring areas of inquiry, like the challenge of trying to make art out of sentences; the effort to recover and imagine lost stories from the past; the changing status of the literary imagination; fictional portraiture and the productive possibilities that come from blending biography and fiction; and concerns about literacy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoanna Scott has made her name through brilliant, award-winning novels, but this volume clarifies why she is also one of America's leading public intellectuals and an astute critic of literature and culture.","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45033006137495,"sku":"9781496829337","price":2945.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781496829337.webp?v=1767896978","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/conversations-with-joanna-scott-9781496829337","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}