false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171357181m/96930.jpg 96930 2 After 30 years as a journalist, John Darnton decided to try his hand at writing a novel. If he wrote 1,000 words a day, he discovered, he'd have a book in a matter of months. But wouldn't it be nice to learn a few tricks of the trade from other writers as well? Thus was born <I>The New York Times</I>'s Monday-morning <I>Writers on Writing</I> series. In embarking on the series, says Darnton, he learned that the writers he most wanted to hear from were not necessarily the same ones who most wanted to hear from him. But there couldn't have been too many who turned him down. The 46 columns collected in <I>Writers on Writing</I> are by the likes of Saul Bellow, Mary Gordon, David Mamet, Annie Proulx, Carol Shields, and Paul West. Though many of them have not much more than the occupation "writer" in common, Darnton says that in one way he found them all to be alike: "They wanted to hear, right away, what you thought of their work."<p> Here, Richard Ford explains why he finds not writing to be a terrific thing. Alice Hoffman describes the effect illness (her own and that of others) has had on her work. Barbara Kingsolver grapples with writing an "unchaste" novel. Louise Erdrich explores the effect a second language, Ojibwe in her case, can have on one's involvement with the first. And Russell Banks learns the hard way that "when you meet a witness to your distant past, your memory tends to improve." The most hilarious piece is Carolyn Chute's "How Can You Create Fiction When Reality Comes to Call?" In it, she describes one day, in which "X-rated stuff happens," the cuckoo clock goes off incessantly, dirty dishes beckon, political cohorts come calling, a dog has a couple of seizures, laundry needs doing, and guests constantly arrive. Once Chute finally does get down to writing, the "n" breaks off the daisy wheel. But at least the phone doesn't ring. "Its bell is broken. It never rings. Thank heavens." <I>--Jane Steinberg</I> 93430 2001 Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times total:78|5:14|4:37|3:25|2:1|1:1| 78 296 145 10 96930 0805070850 9780805070859 77 10 3.79 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171357181m/96930.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96930.Writers_on_Writing_Collected_Essays_from_The_New_York_Times 4 1 false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 14:48:05 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 15:15:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 96930 0805070850 9780805070859 77 10 3.79 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171357181m/96930.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96930.Writers_on_Writing_Collected_Essays_from_The_New_York_Times 4 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Sep 08 07:55:12 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 07:59:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 96930 0805070850 9780805070859 77 10 3.79 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171357181m/96930.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96930.Writers_on_Writing_Collected_Essays_from_The_New_York_Times 4 0 false Tue Jan 27 12:56:52 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 13:18:05 -0800 2009 96930 0805070850 9780805070859 77 10 3.79 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171357181m/96930.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96930.Writers_on_Writing_Collected_Essays_from_The_New_York_Times 4 0 false Sun Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 07:40:53 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 07:45:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 96930 0805070850 9780805070859 77 10 3.79 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171357181m/96930.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96930.Writers_on_Writing_Collected_Essays_from_The_New_York_Times 4 0 false Mon Feb 23 20:49:16 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 20:50:56 -0800 2009 96930 0805070850 9780805070859 77 10 3.79 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171357181m/96930.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96930.Writers_on_Writing_Collected_Essays_from_The_New_York_Times 5 0 false Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 13 15:24:01 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 27 07:27:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 96930 0805070850 9780805070859 77 10 3.79 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171357181m/96930.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96930.Writers_on_Writing_Collected_Essays_from_The_New_York_Times 3 0 false Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 14:28:14 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 10:34:42 -0800 2009 96930 0805070850 9780805070859 77 10 3.79 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171357181m/96930.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96930.Writers_on_Writing_Collected_Essays_from_The_New_York_Times 5 0 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 09:41:52 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 09:41:52 -0800 2008 96930 0805070850 9780805070859 77 10 3.79 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171357181m/96930.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96930.Writers_on_Writing_Collected_Essays_from_The_New_York_Times 4 0 false Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jan 26 23:42:02 -0800 2009 Sat May 02 23:13:37 -0700 2009 I am so just (and simply) limiting myself to just adding books I read!
That is until I figure (and find!) "how-tos" :-)

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