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

Delany, Samuel R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819567167 ISBN 13: 9780819567161

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Essential reading for the creative writer.

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.

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About the Author

SAMUEL R. DELANY is award-winning author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, most recently Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. He lives in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819567167
• ISBN 13: 9780819567161
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432