Pity the reader : on writing with style
Record details
- ISBN: 9781609809621
- ISBN: 1609809629
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Physical Description:
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xii, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Edition: A Seven Stories Press first edition.
- Publisher: New York : Seven Stories Press, [2019]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-399). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Advice for everyone on writing anything -- About writing fiction -- The prime mover -- Detouring forward -- Dead ahead -- Breakthrough -- Fear of finding a worthy subject or a dearth of death -- The last word on the prime mover or fear not -- Soul growth -- Sanctuary -- What makes great art or art and soul -- Agents of change -- Writers as teachers or the noblest profession -- Vonnegut in class -- Heft and comfort -- Talent -- Diligence -- Pitfalls -- Methodologism -- Materializations -- Propagation -- Regeneration -- The mother of all pearls -- Beginnings -- Plot -- Character -- Prose, the audial -- Prose, the visual -- The joke biz -- Black humor -- Much better stories: re-vision and revision -- Eeny-meeny-miny-moe or choice -- Making a living -- Caring for your piece in the game -- Farting around in life and art -- Love, marriage, and baby carriage -- Better together or community. |
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Genre: | Anecdotes. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Anecdotes. |
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Homer Public Library | 813.54 VON (Text) | 000157727 | Nonfiction | Available | - |