The Writing Life: Writers On How They Think And Work
by Marie Arana
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Presents reprints of articles by over fifty professional authors in which they discuss aspects of their lives as writers, drawn from throughout ten years of the "Writing Life" column of the "Washington Post."Tags
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How do you rate a collection? Is it the selections that matter? How well they tie together as a theme? Is it the introductions to each selection? Marie Arana succeeded in all of these areas. I enjoyed every essay, especially the ones by James Michener, Ray Bradbury, Carol Shields, Patricia Cornwell, Wendy Wasserstein, Michael Korda, and Julian Barnes. The career path for writers has changed over time. What remains constant is that every writer finds a distinctive way of viewing the world and masters the often painstaking craft of sharing it with others.
This book gave me a list of another 40 authors I want to read. Like I really needed that!
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Marie Arana is editor of "The Washington Post Book World" as well as a feature writer for "The Post". She has served on the board of directors of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists as well as the National Book Critics Circle. She lives in Washington, D.C. (Bowker Author Biography)
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