I, Grape; or The Case for Fiction
Essays
Distributed for Acre Books
176 pages
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5 1/4 x 8 1/4
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© 2020
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
An Introduction, or Writing about What Matters Most
1. What Can Fiction Do? Not Much, Unless It’s Set in Cincinnati
2. The Case for Meanness
3. What the Cold Can Teach Us
4. Inspiring the Creative Spirit: A Talk At and About My Hometown
5. The Facts about John Cheever
6. The Importance of Fiction in the Age of Memoir
7. Why Good Literature Makes Us Bad People
8. I, Grape
9. The Only Reason to Write a Novel: Paul Beatty’s Slumberland
10. Artifice is Art: The Case for Muriel Spark
11. Making Friends
12. The Problem of Place
13. The Novel is Dead; Long Live the Novel
14. The Imagined Life
15. Let Me Tell You What it Means to Be From Upstate New York: A Loser’s Love Song
1. What Can Fiction Do? Not Much, Unless It’s Set in Cincinnati
2. The Case for Meanness
3. What the Cold Can Teach Us
4. Inspiring the Creative Spirit: A Talk At and About My Hometown
5. The Facts about John Cheever
6. The Importance of Fiction in the Age of Memoir
7. Why Good Literature Makes Us Bad People
8. I, Grape
9. The Only Reason to Write a Novel: Paul Beatty’s Slumberland
10. Artifice is Art: The Case for Muriel Spark
11. Making Friends
12. The Problem of Place
13. The Novel is Dead; Long Live the Novel
14. The Imagined Life
15. Let Me Tell You What it Means to Be From Upstate New York: A Loser’s Love Song
Review Quotes
Publishers Weekly
"Novelist Clarke chronicles in this whimsical outing his obsession with fiction as an art form. . . This impassioned defense of fiction is great for dipping into, and those who engage with fiction on a deep level will find much here that piques."
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