3 Minutes or Less: Life Lessons from America's Greatest Writers

by Bloomsbury

Book Overview

An anthology of never-before-published short essays by America's literary greats. Each October at the PEN Gala, well-known authors take the stage of the Folger Shakespeare Library's Theatre to ponder... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582340692
• ISBN13: 9781582340692
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Three Cheers

The editorial review for this book mentions that all of the stories are "entertaining." That's not quite true, some of the three minute stories are great, and some of them are downright annoying--but then again, perhaps that's the point. You don't buy a book by hundreds of writers so you can enjoy every letter of it. You buy it to embrace even the minutia of authors you already enjoy, and to sample, even if only briefly, the writings of others without having to invest the time and money required of a hundred different books. Towards that end, this book is simply fantastic. Some of the individual stories are, alone, worth the price of the entire text. Taken as a whole, this novel could only be a disappointment to the illiterate, or to the overly verbose.