Full name: Literary Occasions: Essays

Author: V. S. Naipaul Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Writing, Essays, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780330420235 9781400031306 0330420232 1400031303

In these 11 pieces, making up an intellectual autobiography, V.S. Naipaul charts more than half-a-century of personal inquiry into the mysteries of written expression and of fiction in particular. Similar books: Quarrel & Quandary by Cynthia Ozick Finding a Form by William H. Gass Curious Pursuits by Margaret Atwood Thank You for Not Reading by Dubravka Ugresic Signposts in a Strange Land by Walker Percy The Merry Heart by Robertson Davies Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith Break Every Rule by Carole Maso Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag New Ways to Kill Your Mother by Colm Toibin Inner Workings by J. M. Coetzee Imaginary homelands by Salman Rushdie The War Against Cliche by Martin Amis Encounter by Milan Kundera The Great Movies by Roger Ebert A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett Reflections by Diana Wynne Jones The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera Henry Miller on Writing by Henry Miller