Discipline: Literature

Rust Hills

Discipline: Literature
Region: Stonington, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 1970
Rust Hills (1924-2008) was an American author and fiction editor at Esquire from 1957 to 1964, though he remained associated with the magazine until 1999. His 1972 book How To Do Things Right: The Revelations of a Fussy Man was a set of humorous essays filled with obsessively-detailed instructions on, for example, the correct way to make and eat milk-toast. In 1974 he edited Writer's Choice, a collection of short stories. The writers included picked their favorite pieces of their own work. Contributors included Updike, Mailer, Capote, Southern, Barth, and Roth. His 1979 book Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular outlined his views on short story craft. Hills attended Kenyon College for one year and received a B.A. and M.A. from Wesleyan University in 1948 and 1949, respectively.

Studios

Monday Music

Rust Hills worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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