To Show and to Tell

Phillip Lopate, renowned writer, head of Columbia Universitys nonfiction department, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay, has written a long-awaited new book on personal writing. Author of distinction One of our greatest personal essayists, says Phillip Lopate, editor of the classic collection The Art of the Personal Essay (Dallas Morning News). This much-anticipated nuts-and-bolts guide to producing literary nonfiction pulls together more than forty years of learning from his illustrious career as a writer and lecturer. To Show and Tell is a fantastic master class formed by Lopates informative, approachable tone and enormous ability for narrative. It reads like a long stroll with a favorite professor, invigorating, instructive, and encouraging in frequently surprising ways.