Views from the Loft: A Portable Writer's Workshop by Daniel Slager

By Daniel Slager

Teachers, routines, mentors, evaluations, humor, and concept: those shape the gas all writers want after they get all the way down to paintings each day. for many years the Loft Literary heart has supplied this gas to a massive group of writers. Views from the Loft brings jointly the accrued knowledge of that group — its authors, scholars, and editors — giving an individual the instruments and concept essential to thrive within the writing lifestyles. A who’s who of writers on writing starting from the nationwide e-book Award–winning poet Mark Doty to Newbery medal–winning children’s writer Kate DiCamillo, and referring to matters as gentle because the illustration of family members in memoir and as hilarious as a “sad-epiphany poem” mad lib for annoyed poets, this e-book is a necessary number of the most important suggestions and not easy questions for everybody who places pen to web page. The essays and interviews during this booklet comprise star writers like Rick Bass, Michael Cunningham, Grace Paley, Susan energy, Susan instantly, Marilyn Hacker, and lots of, many more.

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