The Writer's Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House

by Christopher Beha, Francine Prose (Introduction)

Overview

The Writer's Notebook II offers aspiring authors sixteen insightful essays about the craft of writing by Tin House authors and summer workshop faculty members, including Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, Maggie Nelson, Karen Russell, Benjamin Percy, and others.

The Writer's Notebook II continues in the tradition of The Writer's Notebook, featuring essays based on craft seminars from the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop, as well as a variety of craft essays from Tin House magazine contributors and Tin House Books authors. The collection includes essays that not only examine important craft aspects such as humor, suspense, and research but that also explore creating fractured and nonrealist narratives and the role of dream in fiction. An engaging and enlightening read, The Writer's Notebook II is both a toolkit and an inspiration for any writer. The Writer’s Notebook II offers aspiring authors sixteen insightful essays about the craft of writing by Tin House authors and summer workshop faculty members, including Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, Maggie Nelson, Karen Russell, Benjamin Percy, and others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935639473
Publisher:	Tin House Books
Publication date:	10/22/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	777,644
File size:	573 KB

About the Author

Christopher Beha is the editor of Harper’s Magazine. He is the author of two previous novels, What Happened to Sophie Wilder and Arts & Entertainments, and a memoir, The Whole Five Feet. His writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and the London Review of Books. He lives in New York City with his wife and family.

Table of Contents

Research in Fiction Andrea Barret

4311 The Sword of Damoc

Anthony Doerr11 "A Sort of Leaning Against": Writing With, From, and

Maggie Nelson 8311 The Exper

Adam Braver 11511 On the Making of Orchards Aimee

Get a Job: The Importance of Work in Prose and Poetry Benjamin Percy 131

Short Story: A Process of Revision Antonya Nelson 14111 There Interposed

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15711 Story & Dream Jim Krusoe 17311 Do Something Christ

18711 Engineering Impossible Architectures

19711 Endings: Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow Elissa Schappell

Contributors 23701 Copyright

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