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Advice to Writers

By Jon Winokur

Advice to Writers

By Jon Winokur

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In Advice to Writers, Jon Winokur, author of the bestselling The Portable Curmudgeon, gathers the counsel of more than four hundred celebrated authors in a treasury on the world of writing. Here are literary lions on everything from the passive voice to promotion and publicity: James Baldwin on the practiced illusion of effortless prose, Isaac Asimov on the despotic tendencies of editors, John Cheever on the perils of drink, Ivan Turgenev on matrimony and the Muse. Here, too, are the secrets behind the sleight-of-hand practiced by artists from Aristotle to Rita Mae Brown. Sagacious, inspiring, and entertaining, Advice to Writers is an essential volume for the writer in every reader.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2000-05-09
Publication Date:
2000-05-09
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679763414
ISBN13:
9780679763413
Weight:
272 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
202 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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