The Craft of Writing

One of the delights of the year is this wise and witty book. . . .For writers of fiction and nonfiction beginners and pros [it] will concentrate the attention most wonderfully on the hard-won techniques that go into good writing. Walter Berkov Cleveland Plain Dealer William Sloane was a brilliant editor publisher and teacher for more than forty years. In this book are gathered chapters derived largely from lectures he gave over twenty-five years at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference from correspondence with writers and from editorial memoranda dealing with the specifics of a writers problems.