{"product_id":"the-writers-chapbook-a-compendium-of-fact-opinion-wit-and-advice-from-the-twentieth-centurys-preeminent-writers-modern-library","title":"The Writer's Chapbook: A Compendium of Fact  Opinion  Wit  and Advice from the Twentieth Century's Preeminent Writers (Modern Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first issue of The Paris Review in 1953 included an interview on the craft of writing with E. M. Forster  perhaps the greatest living author of the time. Subsequent issues carried interviews with  among others  Franois Mauriac  Graham Greene  Irwin Shaw  William Styron  Ralph Ellison  and William Faulkner; in the intervening years  many of the worlds most significant writers (Ezra Pound  Robert Frost  Ernest Hemingway  John Updike  and John Dos Passos) sat down with The Paris Review. Many of the interviews have been collected in a series of volumes entitled Writers at Work. From these interviews  The Paris Reviews editor  George Plimpton  has selected the best and most illuminating insights that the writers have provided and arranged them by subject rather than by author. The book is divided into four parts: \"The Writer: A Profile\" (including the sections \"On Reading \" \"On Work Habits \" On the Audi- ence \" etc.); Part II is \"Technical Matters\" (\"On Style \" \"On Plot \" etc.); Part III is \"Different Forms\" (\"On Biography \" \"On Journalism\"); and Part IV is \"The Writers Life \" covering topics like conferences  courses  and teaching  along with a section in which writers provided portraits of other writers. The Writers Chapbook is a fund of observations by writers on writing. These range from marvel- ous one-liners (Eugene ONeill on critics: \"I love every bone in their heads\"; T. S. Eliot on editors: \"I suppose some editors are failed writers--but so are most writers\") to expositions on plot  character  and the technical process of putting pen to paper and doing it for a living. \"I dont even have a plot \" says Norman Mailer; Paul Bowles describes writing in bed; Toni Morrison talks about inventing characters; and Edward Albee and Tom Wolfe explain where they discovered the titles for Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Bonfire of the Vanities. This book is a treasure. But beware: What is true for the Writers at Work series holds for The Writers Chapbook even more--a reader who picks it up  intending just to dip into it  might not emerge for days.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964108795957,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679603158","price":33.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679603153.jpg?v=1770449277","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-writers-chapbook-a-compendium-of-fact-opinion-wit-and-advice-from-the-twentieth-centurys-preeminent-writers-modern-library","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}