Full name: Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice

Author: Colum McCann Year: 2017 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Essays Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780399590801 0399590803

From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writer--and so much more than that. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push the boundaries of experience, to see empathy and wonder in the stories we craft and hear. A paean to the power of language, both by argument and by example, Letters to a Young Writer is fierce and honest in its testament to the bruises delivered by writing as both a profession and a calling. It charges aspiring writers to learn the rules and even break them. These fifty-two essays are ultimately a profound challenge to a new generation to bring truth and light to a dark world through their art. Similar books: Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy L. Sayers Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov The Great Movies by Roger Ebert The Art of the Personal Essay by Phillip Lopate A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett Reflections by Diana Wynne Jones Giving Good Weight by John McPhee Finding Serenity by Jane Espenson The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera Henry Miller on Writing by Henry Miller Awake in the Dark by Roger Ebert The Cross of Redemption by James Baldwin The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit The Revolution Was Televised by Alan Sepinwall The Jewel-Hinged Jaw by Samuel R. Delany The Journey Home by Edward Abbey Prisoner of Zion by Scott Carrier The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin