About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews

Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri’s Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both vivid and sympathetic?) and generalities (How are novels structured? How do writers establish serious literary reputations today?), Delany also examines the condition of the contemporary creative writer and how it differs from that of the writer in the years of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the high Modernists. Like a private writing tutorial, About Writing treats each topic with clarity and insight. Here is an indispensable companion for serious writers everywhere.

• Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
• The Devil Finds Work (Vintage International)
• The Writing Life: Writers On How They Think And Work
• Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.)
• The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
• ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL
• The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot
• The Art Of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives
• The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
• Writing the Other (Conversation Pieces Volume 8)