Phillip Lopate, renowned writer, head of Columbia University's nonfiction department, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay, has written a long-awaited new book on personal writing.
Author of distinction "One of our greatest personal essayists," says Phillip Lopate, editor of the classic collection The Art of the Personal Essay (Dallas Morning News). This much-anticipated nuts-and-bolts guide to producing literary nonfiction pulls together more than forty years of learning from his illustrious career as a writer and lecturer. To Show and Tell is a fantastic master class formed by Lopate's informative, approachable tone and enormous ability for narrative. It reads like a long stroll with a favorite professor, invigorating, instructive, and encouraging in frequently surprising ways.
The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world.
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