To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

A long-awaited and illuminating book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate--celebrated essayist, professor of writing at Columbia...
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To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction by Lopate, Phillip

To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

$17.99

To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

$17.99
Author: Phillip Lopate
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A long-awaited and illuminating book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate--celebrated essayist, professor of writing at Columbia University, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay.

Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as "one of our best personal essayists" (Dallas Morning News).

Here, combining more than forty years of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, he brings us this highly anticipated nuts-and-bolts guide to writing literary nonfiction.

A phenomenal master class shaped by Lopate's informative, accessible tone and immense gift for storytelling, To Show and To Tell reads like a long walk with a favorite professor--refreshing, insightful, and encouraging in often unexpected ways.

Author: Phillip Lopate
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 02/12/2013
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781451696325


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2012 pg. 48
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2012
Library Journal 02/01/2013 pg. 73
Booklist 02/15/2013 pg. 17
New York Times Book Review 03/03/2013 pg. 15
New York Times Book Review 03/10/2013 pg. 26

About the Author
Phillip Lopate is the author of more than a dozen books, including three personal essay collections, Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body, and Waterfront. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a winner of fellowships from the New York Public Library, National Endowment for the Arts, and Guggenheim, he is a professor of graduate nonfiction writing at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with his wife.

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