{"product_id":"9780826218179","title":"Adventures in Pen Land: One Writer's Journey from Inklings to Ink","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe invites us along on a raucous tour of soul-sucking jobs, marriage, and a teaching career, with accompanying disquisitions on blasphemous reading preferences, ’60s pop culture, writing workshops, and other amusing detours and distractions on the way to publication. She also shares her keen insights into the role of a Southern writer in American literary culture, the experience of writing as a mother, and the process of novel-writing as compared to a lengthy family car trip.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing guest appearances by other writers such as Fred Chappell, Max Steele, and Annie Dillard plus cameos by the likes of Patty Hearst, Richard Nixon, and Bon Jovi, \u003ci\u003eAdventures in Pen Land\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates writing as a form of play that Gingher has never outgrown. The lighthearted illustrations by novelist Daniel Wallace (author of \u003ci\u003eBig Fish\u003c\/i\u003e) serve to reinforce this refreshing message as they depict one writer and her imagination growing up together.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAdventures in Pen Land\u003c\/i\u003e conveys a writer’s sheer doggedness, with a few bones of advice tossed in along the way. Candid and irreverent, but always humane, this memoir is must reading for fans of Southern literature, students of creative writing, and anyone who can’t resist the treat of reading about a writer’s resilience and dedication to her craft.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Missouri Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031850828016,"sku":"9780826218179","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780826218179_p0.jpg?v=1763753875","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780826218179","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}