Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
Author(s): Dani Shapiro
Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro's long experience as a celebrated writer and teacher of writing. The beneficiaries are beginning writers, veteran writers and everyone in between.--Jennifer Egan From Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of Devotion and Slow Motion, comes a witty, heartfelt, and practical look at the exhilarating and challenging process of storytelling. At once a memoir, a meditation on the artistic process, and advice on craft, Still Writing is an intimate companion to living a creative life. Writers--and anyone with an artistic temperament--will find inspiration and comfort in these pages. Offering lessons learned over twenty years of teaching and writing, Shapiro shares her own revealing insights to weave an indispensable almanac for modern writers.
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Dani Shapiro is the bestselling author of the memoirs "Devotion" and "Slow Motion," and five novels including "Black & White" and" Family History." Her work has appeared in "The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, One Story, Elle, Vogue, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, " and has been widely anthologized. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia, NYU, The New School and Wesleyan University, and she is co-founder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy. She is a contributing editor at "Travel + Leisure."
General Fields
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- : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- : 0.249
- : August 2014
- : 183mm X 124mm X 20mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Dani Shapiro
- : Paperback / softback
- : 818.5403
- : 230