To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

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...