The Story about the Story II: Great Writers Explore Great Literature

by David Foster Wallace, Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, et al.

Book Overview

In the second volume of The Story About the Story, editor J. C. Hallman continues to argue for an alternative to the staid five-paragraph-essay writing that has inoculated so many against the effects of good books. Writers have long approached writing about reading from an intensely personal perspective, incorporating their pasts and their passions into their process of interpretation. Never before collected in a single volume, the many essays Hallman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935639684
• ISBN13: 9781935639688
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Tin House Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"