Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers by Jansma, Kristopher
Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers by Jansma, Kristopher

Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers

Find creative inspiration in this fascinating rummage through the wastebaskets, secret diaries, and abandoned files of 20...
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Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers by Jansma, Kristopher

Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers

$45.28
Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers by Jansma, Kristopher

Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers

$45.28
Author: Kristopher Jansma
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Find creative inspiration in this fascinating rummage through the wastebaskets, secret diaries, and abandoned files of 20 literary superstars.

If you like to write--whether it's a pastime, a passion, or a profession--you've probably found yourself reading something brilliant and thinking, "I could never do this! I might as well give up." But if there's one thing every great author has in common, it's this: they've all written some hot garbage.

Revisionaries takes you on an engrossing tour through the discarded drafts, false starts, and abandoned projects of influential writers. In the process, it dismantles some of our most deeply held--and most suffocating--ideas about what it takes to produce great creative work. You'll learn that:

  • Franz Kafka lacked confidence
  • Octavia Butler had writer's block blocked
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote bad drafts
  • Ralph Ellison got overwhelmed
  • Louisa May Alcott got off to a bad start
  • And more deep, dark secrets about the authors you most admire

Written by an award-winning novelist and creative-writing professor, Revisionaries is a compelling peek behind the scenes of genius for writers and readers alike.

Author: Kristopher Jansma
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: 10/15/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
ISBN: 9781683693734


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/22/2024

About the Author
Kristopher Jansma is the author of the novels Our Narrow Hiding Places, Why We Came to the City, and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards. He is the winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the recipient of an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His short fiction, distinguished in The Best American Short Stories 2016, has been published in The Sun, Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Story, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. Kristopher is an associate professor of English and director of the creative writing program at SUNY New Paltz College.
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