Because You Have To: A Writing Life
Fiction ’96 alumna Joan Frank‘s new essay collection Because You Have To: A Writing Life
My interest . . . is in the emotional and physical and dream-life of writing (and reading) as an inescapable calling, and in ways of inhabiting that life . . . topics that have often struck me as screened off from the general dialogue, treated as unsavory—like that hidden little back room where the car salesman ducks away, to discuss your proposed purchase price with his “boss.”
