{"product_id":"a-story-larger-than-my-janet-burroway-9780226014104","title":"A Story Larger Than My Own: Women Writers Look Back on Their Lives and Careers","description":"In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the \u003ci\u003eSaturday Evening Post. \"\u003c\/i\u003eLines on a Half-Painted House\u003ci\u003e\" \u003c\/i\u003emade 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eA Story Larger than My Own\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janet Burroway\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022601410X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226014104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/07\/2014","brand":"Janet Burroway","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47637126512895,"sku":"9780226014104","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7da7b72f-f00c-4ca9-8680-8d8fa9bf09b1.jpg?v=1765114079","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-story-larger-than-my-janet-burroway-9780226014104","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}