About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews by Delany, Samuel R.

About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780819567161)

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About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews by Delany, Samuel R.

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

$29.95
About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews by Delany, Samuel R.

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

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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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.



Author: Samuel R. Delany
ISBN-10: 0819567167
ISBN-13: 9780819567161
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/04/2006
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.08w x 1.17d

Review Citation(s):
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
By Samuel R. Delany
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SAMUEL R. DELANY has taught writers workshops for over 35 years, and has won the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to gay and lesbian literature. He has also been recognized with both Hugo and Nebula awards, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Darkroom Black Students Collective at Harvard University. Delany is Professor of English and creative writing at Temple University, and lives in New York City.

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