{"product_id":"9781925435818","title":"On Kate Jennings: Writers on Writers","description":"\u003ci\u003eKate says she doesn’t know what to say about writing. When people ask, she tells them to prepare for a life of failure.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Award-winning writer Erik Jensen plunges the reader into the world of acclaimed novelist, poet and pioneering feminist Kate Jennings. Weaving in his interviews with Jennings in New York, he shows how poetry, politics and family were transmuted into her first novel, \u003ci\u003eSnake\u003c\/i\u003e – a work of art that depicts rural Australia in a funny, cutting and unforgettable way. This is a biography of a book and the life that made it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the Writers on Writers series, leading writers reflect on another Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative, crisp and written from a practitioner’s perspective, the series starts a fresh conversation between past and present, and writer and reader. It sheds light on the craft of writing, and introduces some intriguing and talented authors and their work. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Published by Black Inc. in association with the University of Melbourne and State Library Victoria. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Erik Jensen is the founding editor of the \u003ci\u003eSaturday Paper\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written for film, television and the stage. His first book, \u003ci\u003eAcute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Nib Award for Literature and was shortlisted for the Walkley Book Award and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. He has worked as a writer and editor at the Sydney Morning Herald, where he won the Walkley Award for Young Print Journalist of the Year and the United Nations Association of Australia’s Media Peace Prize.","brand":"Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131960115440,"sku":"9781925435818","price":15.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781925435818_p0.jpg?v=1763634893","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781925435818","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}