| Edition |
First Free Press trade paperback edition. |
| Description |
xi, 225 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
I. The craft of personal narrative. The state of nonfiction today -- On the necessity of turning oneself into a character -- Reflection and retrospection: a pedagogic mystery story -- How do you end an essay? -- The uses of contrariety -- Imagination thin and thick -- Facts have implications: or, is nonfiction really fiction? -- On the ethics of writing about others -- Modesty and assertion -- On writers' journals -- The essay: exploration or argument? -- The made-up self: on the difficulty of turning oneself into a character -- Research and personal writing -- The lyric essay -- The personal essay in the age of Facebook -- II. Studies of practitioners. Lamb's Essays of Elia -- Hazlitt on hating -- How I became an Emersonian -- Teaching James Baldwin -- Edward Hoagland: the Dean of American essayists -- The memoir and its critics: two takes. |
| Summary |
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.-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Creative nonfiction -- Authorship.
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Autobiography -- Authorship.
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Essay -- Authorship.
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Prose literature -- Authorship.
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| ISBN |
9781451696325 trade paper |
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1451696329 trade paper |
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