Reading Like a Writer

A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read--and write Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries says Francine Prose. As she takes us on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters--Dostoyevsky Flaubert Kafka Austen Dickens Woolf Chekhov--Prose discovers why these writers endure. She takes ...See More