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Bill Roorbach"I've admired Bill Roorbach's voice for a long time. He's a writer who is full of compassion and warmth for his subjects, and he's funny as hell, too." --Rick Moody "Bill Roorbach's writing is notable for its warmth, its sensitivity to women, and its irresistable bad boy charm." --Joyce Johnson "Roorbach falls, for me, into that small category of writers whose every book I must read, then reread." --Jay Parini "Bill Roorbach is a storyteller's storyteller." --Antonya Nelson. "Bill Roorbach's stylish writing--with its surprising and generous observations about landscapes, internal and external--makes for great literature." --Debra Spark "Bill Roorbach has quietly built a stellar reputation." --Publisher's Weekly |
Bill's BooksTemple Stream
Just published, Temple Stream is a deep, moving, sometimes hilarious celebration of the stream that flows through the fields below the author's house in Maine. History, science, natural history, autobiography, people, exploration, all framed in the year of his daughter's birth. A Place on Water (with Robert Kimber and Wesley McNair)
This is a little book, with any luck a jewel like the pond it's about. Wes McNair is a poet, Bob Kimber an essayist, and we've teamed up with Tibury House to publish a sweet little book about friendship, dogs, conversation, and water. The book has recently been selected as a community reads book by several Waterville area towns: we'll be doing a number of events surrounding that honor in the fall of 2005. Into Woods
"Bill Roorbach has the remarkable gift of evoking one of the most likeable companions I have ever encountered in literature. In his essays, the reader finds a friend who enlivens the senses and the spirit. Here is a narrator who makes you glad to be alive, giddy to be in his presence, grateful to love friends and family and dogs with generosity and abandon, to show tenderness and thus be saved by strangers." --Melanie Rae Thon The Smallest Color: A Novel
"It's been a while since I read a novel as greedily as I did THE SMALLEST COLOR. Full of dark suspense, wonderfully playful writing, and people worth worrying yourself sick over, it's a richly satisfying read." --Rick Russo Big Bend: Short Stories
"Here comes Bill Roorbach with nine good reasons to find the couch or some big chair. Reading these stories may be the reason we even have some of this furniture. Frankly, I recommend you take them into your house and meet these new people in BIG BEND. They are as tender and troubled as we are, as charming, indecisive, nervous, blessed, crazy, and destined to survive, find love, miss it. I've been waiting for these stories for a while now." --Ron Carlson Summers With Juliet
"'There is nothing without the world,' Roorbach writes, and SUMMERS WITH JULIET is a double love story. Love of Juliet grows from the intense focus and tunnel vision of first love to become, in a wonderfully rendered process, love of the world. This open-eyed book provides its readers delight again and again." --William Matthews Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature
"Bill Roorbach's WRITING LIFE STORIES is brimming with valuable suggestions, evocative assignments, insights into the writing process, and shrewd common sense. I can't wait to try some of his ideas in the classroom and on myself. This is one writing guide that delivers the goods." --Phillip Lopate Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: The Art of Truth
The most inclusive collection of creative nonfiction available, THE ART OF TRUTH is the only anthology that brings together examples of all three of the main forms in the genre: the literary memoir, the personal essay, and literary journalism. |
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