A brilliant book about the art of writing from one of the most popular critics of our time
In every writer there lurks a singer. It's that voice you had before you ever spoke. One so natural, it was spectacular—full of innate operatic ability. I remember my daughter at nine months gripping the rails of her crib and belting ...
Reflections on writing from a master.
And in the title story, originally published in The New Yorker, a woman in San Francisco uses dating apps to find a partner despite the threat posed by “blots,” preternaturally handsome artificial men dispatched by Russian hackers to ...
Writing Voice gives you the tools to not only create that voice but perfect it.
Dublin-based writer Mark O’Connell is consumed by these questions—and, as the father of two young children, he finds them increasingly urgent. In Notes from an Apocalypse, he crosses the globe in pursuit of answers.
An easy-to-follow guide to improve your writing skills. Includes examples from the author and her students.
. . The essays contain important counsel for new and career journalists, as well as for freelance writers, radio producers, and memoirists.
The Writer's Voice, 1: Reading Into Writing
DILLARD : Morning : the soft release As you open a jar of pickles . The sun through the window warm And moving like light through brine , The shadows of pickles swim the floor . And in the tree , flowing down the chimney , The songs of ...