My girlfriend handed me 'Body and Soul' very shortly after we met. I had recently moved out to New York and was blazing headlong into my first, feverish and consuming love affair with the city and this girl I found in it. She said that from all she had already learned about me, that she was going...
Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, relaxed oasis in the ocean." This book, part travel diary, part memoir, is a hauntingly evocative and personal journey ...
One of the Oldest and most distinguished writing programs in the nation, the Iowa Writers' Workshop has produced some of the greatest American writers of this century. Now for the first time, director Frank Conroy gathers together essays on writing from 25 of the workshop's celebrated faculty and...
first came into usage some sixty years ago when Iowa University, with the blessing of the Board of Regents, decided to accept “creative” theses in partial fulfillment of the requirements toward earning certain advanced degrees. Quite a radical idea at the time. Write a string quartet toward a Ph....
She was trying to find a book. Her profile struck him immediately—fine-boned, aristocratic, and somehow familiar—and when she turned he felt a slight disappointment. She was not quite as beautiful as he had imagined. Nevertheless he could not take his eyes off her. "What happened to the GS seven ...
You’re Already on NantucketPERIODICALLY AN IDEA COMES UP IN ONE town meeting or the other: a scheme to control the number of automobiles coming onto the island. Nothing changes, however. Even limits that seem sensible, say, two or three cars per household, never get implemented. As cars rule Amer...
