KEVIN LIPPERT (COMPILER)
The Writer Says summons us to an intimate gathering of novelists, memorists, grammarians, journalists, and teachers - a glittering cocktail party where history`s most venerable scribes meet today`s freshest storytellers and essayists to compare insights on work habits, formative experiences, the pleasures and limitations of language, the business of authoring, and much more. On the guest list: Henry James and Mark Twain, squaring off about modifiers; Charles Bukowski and Beverly Cleary, at odds about revision; Zadie Smith and Chinua Achebe, disccussing the moral dimension of writing; and Jonathan Ames and JAckie Collins, united in their desire to grive readers pleasure. The Writer Says presents the process, preferences, admonitions, and advice of our most beloved writers, in a collection sure to inspire readers to pen some perspicacious prose of their own.