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Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy: Advice and Confessions on Writing, Love, and Cannibals Hardcover - 2015

by Dinty W. Moore


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Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy,
I have a hot crush on the em dash. What does my need to stuff--while simultaneously fracturing--my sentences--with the meandering, the explanatory, the discursive, the perhaps not-entirely-necessary--say about me?
--Cheryl Strayed Have you ever wished there were an advice columnist for writers, but one who didn't take things so damned seriously? This unique writing guide pairs questions sent in by top contemporary essayists with hilariously witty answers and essays from acclaimed author Dinty W. Moore. Phillip Lopate asks for advice on writing about your ex without sounding like an ass, Julianna Baggott worries that to be a great writer you must drink like a fish, and Roxane Gay asks whether it's kosher to write about writing. Taking advantage of all the tools available to today's personal essayist--egregious puns, embarrassing anecdotes, and cocktail napkins--Professor Moore answers these questions, and more, demystifying the world of nonfiction once and for all. With a tip of the hat to history's most infamous essay--Montaigne's "Of Cannibals"--this book provides rollicking relief for writers in distress.

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  • Title Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy: Advice and Confessions on Writing, Love, and Cannibals
  • Author Dinty W. Moore
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ten Speed Press
  • Date 2015-08
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781607748090 / 1607748096
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.3 x 5.1 x 0.8 in (18.54 x 12.95 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Essay - Authorship, Creative nonfiction - Authorship
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014041448
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.042

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  • Library Journal, 05/15/2015, Page 89
  • Shelf Awareness, 08/28/2015, Page 0

About the author

DINTY W. MOORE is a highly regarded essayist and author of numerous books, including The Mindful Writer, Crafting the Personal Essay, and the memoir Between Panic and Desire, winner of the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize. He has been published inthe Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Gettysburg Review, Harper's, and Crazyhorse, among others. He also edits Brevity: The Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction and has served as coordinating editor for the annual anthology Best Creative Nonfiction. Moore currently teaches as director of Ohio University's BA, MA, and PhD in Creative Writing program.
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