Why Write?: A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why It Matters by Edmundson, Mark

Why Write?: A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why It Matters (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781632863058)

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Why Write?: A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why It Matters by Edmundson, Mark

Why Write?: A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why It Matters

$26.00
Why Write?: A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why It Matters by Edmundson, Mark

Why Write?: A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why It Matters

$26.00
Format: Hardcover
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From one of America's great professors, author of Why Teach? and Why Read?--an inspiring exploration of the importance of writing well, for creators, educators, students, and anyone who writes.

Why write when it sometimes feels that so few people really read--read as if their lives might be changed by what they're reading? Why write, when the world wants to be informed, not enlightened; to be entertained, not inspired? Writing is backbreaking, mindbreaking, lonely work. So why?

Because writing, as celebrated professor Mark Edmundson explains, is one of the greatest human goods. Real writing can do what critic R. P. Blackmur said it could: add to the stock of available reality. Writing teaches us to think; it can bring our minds to birth. And once we're at home with words, there are few more pleasurable human activities than writing. Because this is something he believes everyone ought to know, Edmundson offers us Why Write?, essential reading--both practical and inspiring--for anyone who yearns to be a writer, anyone who simply needs to know how to get an idea across, and anyone in between--in short, everyone.

Author: Mark Edmundson
ISBN-10: 1632863057
ISBN-13: 9781632863058
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2016
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/23/2016
Library Journal 06/01/2016 pg. 101
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2016
Shelf Awareness 08/30/2016
By Mark Edmundson
By Mark Edmundson
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Mark Edmundson teaches at the University of Virginia, where he is university professor. A prizewinning scholar, he is also the author of Why Teach?, Why Read?, Teacher, The Death of Sigmund Freud, and The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll. His writing has appeared in such publications as the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Nation, the American Scholar, Raritan, and Harper's. He lives in Batesville, Virginia.

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