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Why Writing Matters

✍ Scribed by Nicholas Delbanco

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Leaves
284
Series
Why X Matters Series
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Drawing lessons from writers of all ages and writing across genres, a distinguished teacher and writer reveals the enduring importance of writing for our time

In this new contribution to Yale University Press’s Why X Matters series, a distinguished writer and scholar tackles central questions of the discipline of writing. Drawing on his own experience with such mentors as John Updike, John Gardner, and James Baldwin, and in turn having taught such rising stars as Jesmyn Ward, Delbanco looks in particular at questions of influence and the contradictory, simultaneous impulses toward imitation and originality. Part memoir, part literary history, and part analysis, this unique text will resonate with students, writers, writing teachers, and bibliophiles.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Contents
Author’s Note
Preface
1. Teachers
2. Imitation
3. Five Texts
4. True or False
5. Strategies in Prose
6. Originality
7. More Matter
8. Students
9. Addenda, Corrigenda
Postscript
A Note on Sources

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