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![]() But it's much more than a "craft book" for writers. Impossible now to imagine a nonfiction course that does not include To Show and To Tell in its syllabus. Phillip Lopate's tour of literary nonfiction includes brilliant and helpful considerations of the essay and memoir, placing them and their vexing questions in clear cultural context. Thus it's the essential text for anyone who seeks to enjoy, to understand, or to write nonfiction., "Sophisticated… Lopate, a consummate and piquant essayist,…draws on his extensive teaching experience in this expert, anecdotal, funny, and frank guide to writing "intelligent, satisfying, engaging literary nonfiction." Even in a how-to book, Lopate can't help but write lithe and sparring personal essays… Never one to accept received wisdom, Lopate encourages writers to go beyond the safe, facile, and sentimental.", One of the Earls of Essay returns with a collection that illustrates both his knowledge of the genre and his considerable skill in practicing it… A useful collection of bracing thoughts and sinuous sentences., "At last-a reliable guide to the signature genre of the age. ![]() Gives away all his trade secrets - a thoughtful guidebook for writers of literary nonfiction., The work of a master, To Show and To Tell is beyond compare, for it embodies a poetics of literary nonfiction that takes into account all the crucial aspects, elements, and issues of the craft. ![]()
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