Another chapter is composed of Vara’s Amazon reviews ... children’s books, and so on. It also won’t be that surprising if people enjoy them; people enjoy formulaic writing all the time.

How to Write One Song is an okay book by a great songwriter. Unlike the carefully crafted lyrics of Tweedy’s songs for his band Wilco, the prose in How to Write One Song often feels more like a daily ...

Cold comfort. But Marsh is smart enough to know that no one who wants to write is going to be discouraged by cautionary tales or dismal book sales statistics. Nor should they be. Because ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. To discuss means to talk or write about a subject in detail. It's good to be able to discuss stories and books with ...

As these events have piled up, my writing students have become more interested in rendering their own experiences—especially the painful ones. “This is not a craft book in the traditional ...

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Sonia Faleiro’s new book How I Write attempts to extract this very ... But she fixates on one absence: The New York Times review that never came. “Publishing a book is like birthing a child ...

As she eventually acknowledges, McCracken, the author of this book but not, for the most part, its narrator, has a brother, a husband (writer Edward Carey), and two children. She prefers writing ...

One critic suggested that by writing the book she was “perpetuating the abuse of a young man that began when she and her husband exiled him from their lives.” Another called the book “a ...