The Great Failure (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Natalie Goldberg
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: From the 1960's through the early 2000's
- Setting: Long Island, New York; Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico
- Principal Characters: Natalie Goldberg, Benjamin Goldberg, Sylvia Edelstein Goldberg, Dainin Katagiri Roshi
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Twentieth century, Self, Authors or writers, Religion, Poetry or poets, Writing, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Religious life, Zen Buddhism, Self-revelations, 2000’s
- Locales: Long Island, NY, Taos, NM, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Santa Fe, NM
For almost two decades, Natalie Goldberg has worked under the shadow of her own success. Her most popular book, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (1986), has sold more than one million copies and has been translated into a dozen languages. It was her first national publication and launched her career as a nationally known leader of writing workshops. Writing Down the Bones and its sequel, Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life (1990), won Goldberg thousands of acolytes among the people who would like to be writers if they could only get started....
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