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When People Publish: Essays on Writers and Writing
When People Publish Essays on Writers and Writing Author:Frederick Busch This is a book about fiction writing from the writer's perspective, concentrating on what happens once the writing is done and makes it into print -- or doesn't. — Frederick Busch ruminates on the works and lives of literary giants -- Dickens, Melville, Kafka, Hemingway. He probes his relationship with these and other literary mentors and his own... more » growth as a writer over twenty years.
This is a book for students of writing and for all serious readers, as it explores the act of molding language, fearing its failure, loathing its reception and coping with public reaction.« less