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Title: Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times by John Darnton, The New York Times ISBN: 0-8050-7085-0 Publisher: Times Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Impressive
Comment: In this fascinating book, forty-six writers talk about what they do in forty-six voices worth listening to -- serious essays, whimsical essays, stories, confessions. The book does not provide biographies, although the basic facts of the lives of many are well known, such as John Updike, David Mamet, Saul Bellow and others. Writers On Writing might be of interest to those who have read Eleanor Wachtel's More Writers and Company, which includes bigraphical data and compelling interviews with about two dozen writers, including several who contributed essays to Writers On Writing: Carol Shields, Alice Walker, E. L. Doctorow, Louise Eldrich, Jane Smiley, and Jamaica Kincaid.
Rating: 4
Summary: A lot of talent under one cover
Comment: This book is exactly what it promised to be: a compilation of the essays that the New York Times runs on Mondays under the headline "Writers on Writing." If you've been following the series you won't find any surprises. It's just nice to have everything in one place in more permanent form than a stack of newspaper clippings. If you don't read the New York Times you'll find a collection of essays loosely themed around writing and whatever the author decides to tie it to, by a wide spectrum of writers including, as a random sampling, Saul Bellow, Barbara Kingsolver, Elie Wiesel and Scott Turow. Chances are you're going to find some names in there that aren't familiar. One could wish the editor had included a brief bio on each writer, or at least a list of their titles. Even so, it's an engaging collection.
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Title: Writers on Writing, Volume II: More Collected Essays from The New York Times by The New York Times, Jane Smiley ISBN: 0805073612 Publisher: Times Books Pub. Date: 14 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Writing Life: Writers on How They Think and Work: A Collection from the Washington Post Book World by Marie Arana ISBN: 1586481495 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Writing Life by Annie Dillard ISBN: 0060919884 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 26 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers by Carolyn See ISBN: 067946316X Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 13 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: If You Want to Write : A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit by Brenda Ueland ISBN: 1555972608 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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