To Show and to Tell
The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
1st Edition
Published on 12. February 2013
240 pages
978-1-4516-9633-2 (ISBN)
Description
A long-awaited and illuminating book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate?celebrated essayist, professor of writing at Columbia University, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay.
Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as "one of our best personal essayists" (Dallas Morning News).
Here, combining more than forty years of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, he brings us this highly anticipated nuts-and-bolts guide to writing literary nonfiction.
A phenomenal master class shaped by Lopate's informative, accessible tone and immense gift for storytelling, To Show and To Tell reads like a long walk with a favorite professor?refreshing, insightful, and encouraging in often unexpected ways.
Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as "one of our best personal essayists" (Dallas Morning News).
Here, combining more than forty years of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, he brings us this highly anticipated nuts-and-bolts guide to writing literary nonfiction.
A phenomenal master class shaped by Lopate's informative, accessible tone and immense gift for storytelling, To Show and To Tell reads like a long walk with a favorite professor?refreshing, insightful, and encouraging in often unexpected ways.
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Person
Phillip Lopate is the author of more than a dozen books, including three personal essay collections, Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body, and Waterfront. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a winner of fellowships from the New York Public Library, National Endowment for the Arts, and Guggenheim, he is a professor of graduate nonfiction writing at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with his wife.
Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- Part I: The Craft of Personal Narrative
- Chapter 1: The State of Nonfiction Today
- Chapter 2: On the Necessity of Turning Oneself into a Character
- Chapter 3: Reflection and Retrospection: A Pedagogic Mystery Story
- Chapter 4: How Do You End an Essay?
- Chapter 5: The Uses of Contrariety
- Chapter 6: Imagination Thin and Thick
- Chapter 7: Facts Have Implications: Or, is Nonfiction Really Fiction?
- Chapter 8: On the Ethics of Writing about Others
- Chapter 9: Modesty and Assertion
- Chapter 10: On Writers' Journals
- Chapter 11: The Essay: Exploration or Argument?
- Chapter 12: The Made-Up Self: On the Difficulty of Turning Oneself into a Character
- Chapter 13: Research and Personal Writing
- Chapter 14: The Lyric Essay
- Chapter 15: The Personal Essay in the Age of Facebook
- Part II: Studies of Practitioners
- Chapter 16: Lamb's Essays of Elia
- Chapter 17: Hazlitt on Hating
- Chapter 18: How I Became an Emersonian
- Chapter 19: Teaching James Baldwin
- Chapter 20: Edward Hoagland: The Dean of American Essayists
- Chapter 21: The Memoir and its Critics: Two Takes
- Acknowledgments
- Reading List
- About the Author
- Copyright
