From Pantyhose To Spandex: Writers On The Job Redux

The authors of From Pantyhose to Spandex: Writers on the Job Redux take you on a tour through a single night in a taxi in Copenhagen while listening to Mahler?s Ninth, through the ?Melancholy House? of a maximum-security prison and assigning juveniledelinquents as their sentence to do the sentences of an essay, through a woman?s decision to sell her eggs for five thousand dollars, through why the legendary jewelry store is called ?Tiffany? rather than ?Tiffany?s,? and on to a beach where forty-eightthousand pounds of lobster wait to be packed, moonlighting (a teacher?s necessity), the sleepless nights of a veterinary assistant, working as a babysitter/envelope, stuffer/carhop/Christmas ballsaleswoman/gas-pumpattendant/and so much more, a day job as a bookseller, a translator, and even more ways of putting food on the table to feed the muses.

Author: Walter Cummins

Publisher: Serving House Books

Publication Date: Sep 01, 2017

Number of Pages: 196 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback/Literary Collections

ISBN-10: 0997779772

ISBN-13: 9780997779776