About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews

About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five InterviewsAward winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both vivid and sympathetic?) and generalities (How are novels structured? How do writers establish serious literary reputations today?), Delany also examines the condition

Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both vivid and sympathetic?) and generalities (How are novels structured? How do writers establish serious literary reputations today?), Delany also examines the condition of the contemporary creative writer and how it differs from that of the writer in the years of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the high Modernists. Like a private writing tutorial, About Writing treats each topic with clarity and insight. Here is an indispensable companion for serious writers everywhere.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 01/04/2006
ISBN: 9780819567161
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.08w x 1.17d

Review Citations: Library Journal 12/01/2005 pg. 129
Booklist 12/15/2005 pg. 13
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2006 pg. 1 - Strongly Recommended
Multicultural Review 10/01/2006 pg. 61
Asimov's Science Fiction 01/01/2007 pg. 129