Essays on the Art o f Writing and the Joy of Reading
What is work to a writer? This is not a question we’d ask if we were contemplating the daily efforts of a plumber or a sales clerk, a barista or a lawyer, a carpenter, a nurse, or a bus driver. That work is visible and self-evident. It happens in front of us, straightforward, understandable. The plumber unclogs a drain. The clerk rings up a sale. The barista pulls a shot.
But what of the writer?
Insights into the art of writing and the joys of reading that are provocative and heartening, thoughtful and funny, reassuring and real.
Reader Reviews are In:
I read this wonderful little book in one sitting. Kessler's essays are alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) hilarious, moving, and inspiring. I'd recommend it to anyone who loves to write or read.
The Write Path is the right stuff for both the experienced and the up-and-coming writer. Yes, it's instructional, but mostly it's inspirational.
She has wisdom to share about the craft of writing (and the pleasures of reading), and she does it in clean, clear, yet chatty and humorous prose that would-be writers would be wise to study and emulate.
Fun, smart, interesting... I even laughed out loud reading the acknowledgments pages, which I never read, but it captured my interest from the first sentence.
