This is a collection of 23 essays based on interviews conducted by Joyce Kilmer with some of the most famous authors of the time (1917). Kilmer's idea, as outlined in the Introduction, was that there is a deep divide between those who write literature, and those who write about literature. He thus bridges the gap and asks authors, the 'makers' as mentioned in the title of the work, about their opinion about various topics. - Summary by Carolin
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Introduction
04:19 - Chapter 2
William Dean Howells: War Stops Literature
14:52 - Chapter 3
Kathleen Norris: The Joys of the Poor
13:54 - Chapter 4
Booth Tarkington: National Prosperity and Art
10:31 - Chapter 5
Montague Glass: Romanticism and American Humor
19:58 - Chapter 6
Rex Beach: The 'Movies' Benefit Literature
12:10 - Chapter 7
Robert W. Chambers: What is Genius?
13:09 - Chapter 8
James Lane Allen: Deterioration of the Short Story
12:46 - Chapter 9
Harry Leon Wilson: Some Harmful Influences
18:21 - Chapter 10
Edward Sandford Martin: The Passing of the Snob
13:03 - Chapter 11
Robert Herrick: Commericalizing the Sex Instinct
14:35 - Chapter 12
Arthur Guiterman: Sixteen Don'ts for Poets
11:26 - Chapter 13
George Barr Mccutcheon: Magazines Cheapen Fiction
13:41 - Chapter 14
Frank H. Spearman: Business Incompatible with Art
19:58 - Chapter 15
Will N. Harben: The Novel Must Go
13:25 - Chapter 16
John Erskine: Literature in the Colleges
13:19 - Chapter 17
John Burroughs: City Life versus Literature
18:21 - Chapter 18
Ellen Glasgow: 'Evasive Idealism' in Literature
13:50 - Chapter 19
Fannie Hurst: 'Chocolate Fudge' in the Magazines
13:16 - Chapter 20
Amy Lowell: The New Spirit in Poetry
11:29 - Chapter 21
Edwin Arlington Robinson: A New Definition of Poetry
12:18 - Chapter 22
Josephine Preston Peabody: Let Poetry be Free
13:12 - Chapter 23
Charles Rann Kennedy: The Heresy of Supermanism
15:19 - Chapter 24
Percy MacKaye: The Masque and Democracy
17:43