Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg

Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg

"No other book, old or new, is as well reasoned as this, as entertaining or as wise. . . . Best book on writing. Ever."--New York Journal of Books

Most of what you think you know about writing is useless. It's the harmful debris of your education--a mixture of half-truths, myths, and false assumptions that prevents you from writing well. Drawing on years of experience as a writer and teacher of writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg offers an approach to writing that will change the way you work and think. There is no gospel, no orthodoxy, no dogma in this book. What you'll find here isn't the way to write. Instead, you'll find a way to clear your mind of illusions about writing and discover how you write.

Several Short Sentences About Writing is a book of first steps and experiments. They will revolutionize the way you think and perceive, and they will change forever the sense of your own authority as a writer. This is a book full of learning, but it's also a book full of unlearning--a way to recover the vivid, rhythmic, poetic sense of language you once possessed.

VERLYN KLINKENBORG is the author of The Last Fine Time, The Rural Life, The Drake Manuscript, and British Literary Manuscripts Series I and II. He has taught at both Bennington College and Harvard University, and has written extensively for The New York Times, Smithsonian, Mother Jones, and numerous other publications. He lives in New York. GORDON ALLEN has illustrated numerous books, including Vermont River (page 163), Steelhead Country (page 161), and The Field & Stream Treasury of Trout Fishing (page 152).

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ISBN 13	9780307279415
ISBN 10	0307279413
Title	Several Short Sentences About Writing
Author	Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2013-04-09
Number of pages	224
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