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About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews Paperback - 2006

by Samuel R. Delany


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Essential reading for the creative writer.

Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both vivid and sympathetic?) and generalities (How are novels structured? How do writers establish serious literary reputations today?), Delany also examines the condition of the contemporary creative writer and how it differs from that of the writer in the years of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the high Modernists. Like a private writing tutorial, About Writing treats each topic with clarity and insight. Here is an indispensable companion for serious writers everywhere.

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  • Title About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
  • Author Samuel R. Delany
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Edition
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wesleyan University Press
  • Date 2006-01-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780819567161 / 0819567167
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.08 x 1.17 in (20.37 x 12.90 x 2.97 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Authorship, Authors, American - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005050758
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

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Citations

  • Asimov's Science Fiction, 01/01/2007, Page 129
  • Booklist, 12/15/2005, Page 13
  • Library Journal, 12/01/2005, Page 129
  • Multicultural Review, 10/01/2006, Page 61
  • Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2006, Page 1

About the author

SAMUEL R. DELANY has taught writers workshops for over 35 years, and has won the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to gay and lesbian literature. He has also been recognized with both Hugo and Nebula awards, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Darkroom Black Students Collective at Harvard University. Delany is Professor of English and creative writing at Temple University, and lives in New York City.
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