Revisionaries
What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers
$54.74
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2024
Summary
Find creative inspiration in this fascinating rummage through the wastebaskets, secret diaries, and abandoned files of 20 literary superstars.
“A pocket-size book of wonders… . Both astute and empathetic.” -Wall Street Journal
In Revisionaries, a writing expert takes you on an engrossing tour through the discarded drafts, false starts, and abandoned projects of influential writers. In the process, he dismantles some of our most deeply held—and most suffocating—ideas about what…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781683693734 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1683693736 |
| Author: | Kristopher Jansma |
| Publisher: | Andrews McMeel Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quirk Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 515g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 139mm x 25mm |
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“A pocket-size book of wonders… . Both astute and empathetic.”—Wall Street Journal
“Aspiring novelists will be heartened.”—Publishers Weekly
About The Author
Kristopher Jansma
Kristopher Jansma is the author of the novels Our Narrow Hiding Places, Why We Came to the City, and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards. He is the winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the recipient of an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His short fiction, distinguished in The Best American Short Stories 2016, has been published in The Sun, Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Story, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. Kristopher is an associate professor of English and director of the creative writing program at SUNY New Paltz College.
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