Rick's review of On Teaching and Writing Fiction (original) (raw)

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On Teaching and Writing Fiction
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This is a very fine collection of essays and interviews on the craft of writing fiction by one of the 20th century’s masters—a master writer and a master teacher. Stegner is wise, compassionate, and rigorous in his thinking and with his advice. The book, published after his death, was edited and introduced by his talented daughter-in-law Lynn Stegner. Any would be writer or teacher would do well to not just read but also heed what Stegner (whose writing students included Ken Kesey, Tillie Olson, Thomas McGuane, Robert Stone, Larry McMurtry, and many others) offers here. “Nobody,” he writes, “can teach the geography of the undiscovered.” Stegner, though, shares the wisdom of the successful voyager.

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March 21, 2008 –Finished Reading

March 22, 2008 – Shelved as:essays

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