Publisher Description
The classic works on the art of nonfiction writing are now in a complete package for your listening pleasure.
This expanded CD collection presents William Zinsser’s On Writing Well, the classic teaching book that has sold more than 1 million copies, together with a new 90-minute section that tells you how to write a memoir.
Based on a course that Zinsser taught at Yale, On Writing Well has long been praised by writers, teachers and students for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It’s for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day. Whether you want to write about people and places, science and technology, business, sports or the arts, this is the definitive guide to the craft of nonfiction.
Part II of this collection—on memoir, personal history and family history—tells you in helpful detail how to write the story of your life: who you are, who you once were, and what heritage you come from. Throughout, Zinsser refers to the work of many successful memoir writers, including Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, Russell Baker and Eudora Welty, to demonstrate how they solved the problems of selection, compression, focus and tone that every memoir writer struggles with.
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“When I first bought On Writing Well I wondered why it wasn’t called Writin’ Good and now I know. Thanks to William Zinsser, I didn’t have to get into his writing class at Yale only to be told my writing needed a clean-up. From the early chapters I was able to put into practice his tips to clearly communicate while maintaining and developing my own style. Plus, his writing samples were just fun to read! Other than fellow nerds, who would have thought that reading about writing could be both enjoyable and useful?”
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Perelandra (5 out of 5 stars)
