Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice

From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writer—and so much more than that.

Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push the boundaries of experience, to see empathy and wonder in the stories we craft and hear.

A paean to the power of language, both by argument and by example, Letters to a Young Writer is fierce and honest in its testament to the bruises delivered by writing as both a profession and a calling. It charges aspiring writers to learn the rules and even break them.

These fifty-two essays are ultimately a profound challenge to a new generation to bring truth and light to a dark world through their art.

• ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL
• Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
• Thirteen Ways of Looking: A Novella and Three Stories
• To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
• The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
• Let the Great World Spin: A Novel
• The Star Side of Bird Hill: A Novel
• Penguin Classics Aspects of the Novel
• TransAtlantic: A Novel
• The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers