A long-awaited and illuminating book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate—celebrated essayist, professor of writing at Columbia University, and editor of
The Art of the Personal Essay
.
Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology
The Art of the Personal Essay,
is universally acclaimed as “one of our best personal essayists” (
Dallas Morning News
).
Here, combining more than forty years of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, he brings us this highly anticipated nuts-and-bolts guide to writing literary nonfiction.
A phenomenal master class shaped by Lopate’s informative, accessible tone and immense gift for storytelling,
To Show and To Tell
reads like a long walk with a favorite professor—refreshing, insightful, and encouraging in often unexpected ways.