From the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin and Transatlantic comes a passionate and practical book of advice, as essential for budding writers as Stephen King’s On Writing
Colum McCann is the author of six novels and three collections
of stories. His most recent novel, TransAtlantic, was longlisted
for the Man Booker Prize 2013, and his previous novel, Let the
Great World Spin, won the National Book Award, the International
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a New York Times bestseller.
His most recent short story collection, Thirteen Ways of Looking,
includes the story ‘What Time is it Now, Where You Are?’ which was
shortlisted for the 2016 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. His
work has been published in forty languages and has received many
international honours, including a Chevalier des Arts et des
Lettres, election to the Irish arts academy and the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in
China and an Oscar nomination. He is the co-founder of the
non-profit global story exchange organisation, Narrative 4, and he
teaches at the MFA program in Hunter College. He lives in New
York.
colummccann.com
A warm, open-hearted paean to the joys of writing
*Sunday Times*
Excellent ... This slim volume cannot fail as a pick-me-up
*Observer*
Practical writing advice meets a heartfelt love song to
creativity
*Irish Times*
An intensely literary writer ... His prose thrums with echoes of
Beckett, Yeats and Joyce
*Sunday Times*
A writer of power and subtlety
*New York Times*
A very gifted, charming writer
*Guardian*
McCann’s writing is elegant and ironic
*The Times*
A supremely talented writer
*Sunday Times*
Practical writing advice meets heartfelt love song to
creativity
*Irish Times 'Books to Look Out for in 2017*
There is beauty to the language and precision, grace notes that
return to mind time and again to transport you. McCann’s books feel
universal. Now the 52-year-old Dublin-born New York-naturalised
bestseller … is letting some of his secrets out … A guide to
putting words on the page and a celebration of language, a call to
look out, not in
*Big Issue in Scotland*
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