“Wonderful . . . Revell’s unusual take makes this as much a warmhearted essay on metaphysics as a guidebook, which is likely to make any poetry lover stop and pay attention.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction.
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“While this study (and the eight others in the series) is geared to aspiring fiction writers or poets, it will also be of interest to nonwriters who are fascinated by literature and how the enjoyments of works of art can be enhanced by knowing how authors use techniques to make their works effective.”
The reissue of a classic book on writing, now with two new essays and a new preface
“[The book] is a pleasure to read, and it performs an important function—by mucking around in the problems that plague contemporary fiction, Burning Down the House may spur both readers and writers first to a recognition of guilty complicity and then to constructive thought.”
"Shrewdly provocative, the anthology teaches and keeps on teaching....
letting poetry speak for itself and ward off amateurish interlopers." —Ruminator Review
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“This correspondence between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright in the
late seventies remains a classic in epistolary literature. Like finely crafted
lace kept as a story of beauty and struggle and passed between generations,
these letters possess a liquid and elegant power.”
“With turns to the wild, clever, and magical
that seem at once fantastic and inevitable, Tiphanie Yanique has crafted a
beautiful collection of short and not-so-short fiction. This is an exciting new
voice.”
"Funny, arch, acerbic, and humanistic, Birkerts's essays remind us that
the ability to give ourselves over to writing that requires
contemplation has not yet vanished." —San Francisco Bay Guardian
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"An enlightening and even inspiring guide to utilizing elements of one's own life and one's family history as fodder for writing novels and short stories."—Booklist
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