A long-awaited and illuminating book on personal writing from Phillip Lopateâcelebrated essayist, professor of writing at Columbia University, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay.
Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as âone of our best personal essayistsâ (Dallas Morning News).
Here, combining more than forty years of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, he brings us this highly anticipated nuts-and-bolts guide to writing literary nonfiction.
A phenomenal master class shaped by Lopateâs informative, accessible tone and immense gift for storytelling, To Show and To Tell reads like a long walk with a favorite professorârefreshing, insightful, and encouraging in often unexpected ways.