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We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.
Kamand Kojouri
I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where they shouldn't be—basically, gimmicks of any kind. I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful—nonfiction only, please. I do not like genre mash-ups à la the literary detective novel or the literary fantasy. Literary should be literary, and genre should be genre, and crossbreeding rarely results in anything satisfying. I do not like children's books, especially ones with orphans, and I prefer not to clutter my shelves with young adult. I do not like anything over four hundred pages or under one hundred fifty pages. I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and—I imagine this goes without saying—vampires.
Gabrielle Zevin (The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry)
people who read literary fiction (as opposed to popular fiction or nonfiction) were better able to detect another person’s emotions, and the theory proposed was that literary fiction engages the reader in a process of decoding the characters’ thoughts and motives in a way that popular fiction and nonfiction, being less complex, do not.
Daniel J. Levitin (The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload)
I recommend readers to be adventurous and to try things they’ve never heard of or considered reading before. Get out of the comfort zone and discover something new and exciting. If you’d never be caught dead in the mystery section go and read some George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly or many others. If you only read thrillers get deep into the literary fiction aisle and let yourself be seduced. If you only read non-fiction pick up a Ian McDonald novel or a Joyce Carol Oates novel. If you only read comic books, get acquainted with the great Charles Dickens or a certain Monsieur Dumas. Pick up something at random and read a page. Feel the texture of the language, the architecture of the imagery, the perfume of the style… There’s so much beauty, intelligence and excitement to be had between the pages of the books waiting for you at your local bookstore the only thing you need to bring is an open mind and a sense of adventure. Disregard all prejudices, all pre-conceived notions and all the rubbish some people try to make you think. Think for yourself. Regarding books or anything in life. Think for yourself.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world.
Phillip Lopate (To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (An Essential Guide for Writers))
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after and judged by these standards, which I do not defend, the bullfight is very normal to me because I feel very fine while it is going on and have a feeling of life and death and mortality and immortality, and after it is over I feel very sad but also very fine.
Ernest Hemingway (Death in the Afternoon)
Lots of writers are fascinated by evil and write copiously about it, but they are bored by virtue; this not only limits their scope but prevents a satisfactory account of evil, which can no more be comprehended apart from good than light can be comprehended apart from darkness.
Dwight Macdonald (Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain (New York Review Books Classics))
I am an author of the analytical critique. And because of that, a ton of research is done by me in order to bring an examination into comprehensive being. ("Interviews With Writers," 2018).
Cat Ellington
What makes me want to keep reading a nonfiction text is the encounter with a surprising, well-stocked mind as it takes on the challenge of the next sentence, paragraph,
Phillip Lopate (To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (An Essential Guide for Writers))
An immortal instinct deep within the spirit of man is thus plainly a sense of the Beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Essays, Literary Studies, Criticism, Cryptography & Autography, Translations, Letters and Other Non-Fiction Works: The Philosophy ... Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…)
Part of the storytelling ability is simply the anticipation of boredom.
Phillip Lopate (To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (An Essential Guide for Writers))
The library was still giving trouble: a few books in some of the more obscure corners of the stacks retained some autonomy, dating back to an infamous early experiment with flying books, and lately they'd begun to breed. Shocked undergraduates had stumbled on books in the very act. Which sounded interesting, but so far the resulting offspring had either been predictably derivative (in fiction) or stunningly boring (nonfiction); hybrid pairings between fiction and nonfiction were the most vital. The librarian thought the problem was just that the right books weren't breeding with each other and proposed a forced mating program. The library committee had an epic secret meeting about the ethics of literary eugenics which ended in a furious deadlock.
Lev Grossman (The Magician's Land (The Magicians, #3))
Jessica DuLong’s elegantly written "My River Chronicles" brings the past of the Hudson River into the vivid present, and carries forward the craft of literary non-fiction with grace and energy.
Gay Talese
I don’t believe I can let this subject pass by leaving my own conflicted emotions unconfessed. When Carl Sagan won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1978, I dismissed it as a minor achievement for a scientist, scarcely worth listing. When I won the same prize the following year, it wondrously became a major literary award of which scientists should take special note.
Edward O. Wilson (The Meaning of Human Existence)
Anything that doesn't fit this mode has been shoved into an area of lesser solemnity called 'genre fiction,' and it is here that the spy thriller and the crime story and the adventure story and the supernatural tale and the science fiction, however excellently written, must reside, sent to their rooms, as it were, for the misdemeanor of being enjoyable in what is considered a meretricious way. They invent, and we all know they invent, at least up to a point, and they are, therefore, not about 'real life,' which ought to lack coincidences and weirdness and action-adventure, unless the adventure story is about war, of course, where anything goes, and they are, therefore, not solid.
Margaret Atwood (In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination)
I can think of another reason... for why thoughts make us sad. We may feel we know too much, or come to know it too early, which is the guilty burden of precocity. Children play to the expectations adults have of them, to behave in a childlike manner, but inside, they may not regard themselves as innocent so much as confused. I grew up sensing that a part of me was faking being a child; I felt I was already an old soul. Lots of people feel that, particularly those who will go on to become writers.
Phillip Lopate (To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (An Essential Guide for Writers))
How about I tell you what I don't like? I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where they shouldn't be - basically gimmicks of any kind. I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful - nonfiction only, please. I do not like genre mashups a la the literary detective novel or the literary fantasy. Literary should be literary, and genre should be genre, and cross breeding rarely results in anything satisfying... I do not like anything over four hundred pages or under one hundred and fifty pages. I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and - I imagine this goes without saying - vampires.
Gabrielle Zevin (The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry)
I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful - nonfiction only, please.
Gabrielle Zevin (The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry)
The truth is the truth. It does not need proof. Only lies need proof. And fake one.
Maria Karvouni (The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing)
To write well, study writers. I would guide you to Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and to Coming into the Country by John McPhee. McPhee is among the best who craft nonfiction in literary style.
Scott Pelley (Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times)
To be a writer is a monstrously arrogant act. It presumes that you should be listened to for pages on end... But there is much in the culture to clip the wings of arrogance, mute assertion, and encourage speedy consensus.
Phillip Lopate (To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (An Essential Guide for Writers))
Glad to know about all of you who care about books, including or especially poetry. I'm a much published writer/editor of 12 books (medical nonfiction, literary novels, mysteries) and much short work, inc. prize-winning pieces.
Carole Spearin McCauley
An editor's life isn't all that glamorous. She (and it’s usually a she) works in a 10’ x 10’ office all day, every day. She has to attend boring acquisition meetings with a bunch of other editors who are pitching their pet projects
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
Along the Merced River there’s a deep sense of peace, yet it coexists with danger. No matter how sedate the river may appear, it’s as wild as the other creatures of Yosemite. Strong currents run underneath the surface. If I were to jump in, the snowmelt cold would induce hypothermia within minutes and, with a little more volume, this calm-looking river would sweep me to my death. People have drowned when it's looked quiet like this, trying to wade across. Someone died here last year, and Sadie Schaeffer, who's buried in the Pioneer Cemetery, died doing that more than a hundred years ago just a short way downriver toward El Capitan. Nature doesn’t stop and make exceptions for people who get in its way.
R. Mark Liebenow (Mountains of Light: Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize))
What makes me want to keep reading a nonfiction text is the encounter with a surprising, well-stocked mind as it takes on the challenge of the next sentence, paragraph, and thematic problem it has set for itself. The other element that keeps me reading nonfiction happily is an evolved, entertaining, elegant, or at least highly intentional literary style. The pressure of style should be brought to bear on every passage. "Consciousness plus style equals good nonfiction" is one way of stating the formula.
Phillip Lopate (To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (An Essential Guide for Writers))
If only some eternal book existed, primed for our enjoyment and whims, no less inventive in the populous morning than the secluded night, oriented toward all hours of the world. Your favourite books, reader, are like rough drafts of that book without a final reading. - Literary Pleasure
Jorge Luis Borges (Selected Non-Fictions)
Travel writing' is a fluid genre, its boundaries shifting over time and its characteristics varying according to specific historical or literary contexts. This anthology has adopted a minimalist definition: a firstperson narrative, proposed and received as non-fiction, describing the narrator's travels and the places visited.
Wendy Bracewell (Orientations: An Anthology of European Travel Writing on Europe (East Looks West))
Though a prose writer (of over fifty novels and a journalist and memoirist of forty books of nonfiction), Colette (1873–1954) lives on in literary history as the poet of the flesh—male, female, androgynous, young, aging, old, animal, vegetable. Proust, who praised her “voluptuous and bitter” soul, wept over some of her pages, André Gide “devoured [her] at a gulp.
Susan Cahill (The Streets of Paris: A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History)
O that we were wise, Ion, and that you could truly call us so; but you rhapsodes and actors, and the poets whose verses you sing, are wise; whereas I am a common man, who only speaks the truth. For consider what a very commonplace and trivial things this which I have said - a thing which any man might say: that when a man has acquired a knowledge of a whole art, the enquiry into good and bad is one and the same.
Plato (Ion)
For all their shared boundaries, the experiences of fiction and nonfiction are fundamentally different. In the traditional short story or novel, a fictive space is opened up that allows you the reader to disappear into the action, even to the point of forgetting you are reading. In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you’re always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The story line or plot in nonfiction consists of the twists and turns of a thought process working itself out. This is certainly true for the essay, but it is also true, I think, for classic nonfiction in general, be it Thucydides or Pascal or Carlyle, which follows an organizing principle that can be summarized as “tracking the consciousness of the author.” What makes me want to keep reading a nonfiction text is the encounter with a surprising, well-stocked mind as it takes on the challenge of the next sentence, paragraph, and thematic problem it has set for itself. The other element that keeps me reading nonfiction happily is an evolved, entertaining, elegant, or at least highly intentional literary style. The pressure of style should be brought to bear on every passage. “Consciousness plus style equals good nonfiction” is one way of stating the formula.
Phillip Lopate (To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (An Essential Guide for Writers))
If fiction provided the consolations of the mask, nonfiction provided, per Annie’s idea of it, the sensibility underneath the mask, irreplaceable and potentially of great value. The literary essay, as she saw it, was a moral exercise that involved direct engagement with the unknown, whether it was a foreign civilization or your mind, and what mattered in this was you. You are the only one of you, she said. Your unique perspective, at this time, in our age, whether it’s on Tunis or the trees outside your window, is what matters. Don’t worry about being original, she said dismissively. Yes, everything’s been written, but also, the thing you want to write, before you wrote
Alexander Chee (How to Write an Autobiographical Novel)
How about I tell you what I don’t like? I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where they shouldn’t be—basically, gimmicks of any kind. I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful—nonfiction only, please. I do not like genre mash-ups à la the literary detective novel or the literary fantasy. Literary should be literary, and genre should be genre, and crossbreeding rarely results in anything satisfying. I do not like children’s books, especially ones with orphans, and I prefer not to clutter my shelves with young adult. I do not like anything over four hundred pages or under one hundred fifty pages. I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and—I imagine this goes without saying—vampires. I rarely stock debuts, chick lit, poetry, or translations. I would prefer not to stock series, but the demands of my pocketbook require me to. For your part, you needn’t tell me about the ‘next big series’ until it is ensconced on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Above all, Ms. Loman, I find slim literary memoirs about little old men whose little old wives have died from cancer to be absolutely intolerable. No matter how well written the sales rep claims they are. No matter how many copies you promise I’ll sell on Mother’s Day.
Gabrielle Zevin (The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry)
What makes me want to keep reading a nonfiction text is the encounter with a surprising, well-stocked mind as it takes on the challenge of the next sentence, paragraph, and thematic problem it has set for itself. The other element that keeps me reading nonfiction happily is an evolved, entertaining, elegant, or at least highly intentional literary style. The pressure of style should be brought to bear on every passage. “Consciousness plus style equals good nonfiction” is one way of stating the formula. For me, the great adventure in reading nonfiction is to follow, as I say, a really interesting, unpredictable mind struggling to entangle and disentangle itself in a thorny problem, or even a frivolous problem that is made complex through engagement with a sophisticated mind.
Phillip Lopate (To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (An Essential Guide for Writers))
We all know what good writing is: It’s the novel we can’t put down, the poem we never forget, the speech that changes the way we look at the world. It’s the article that tells us when, where, and how, the essay that clarifies what was hazy before. Good writing is the memo that gets action, the letter that says what a phone call can’t. It’s the movie that makes us cry, the TV show that makes us laugh, the lyrics to the song we can’t stop singing, the advertisement that makes us buy. Good writing can take form in prose or poetry, fiction or nonfiction. It can be formal or informal, literary or colloquial. The rules and tools for achieving each are different, but one difficult-to-define quality runs through them all: style. “Effectiveness of assertion” was George Bernard Shaw’s definition of style. “Proper words in proper places” was Jonathan Swift’s. You
Mitchell Ivers (Random House Guide to Good Writing)
Like so many other things in the previous year, my politics had also been retooled by maternity. I began to suspect that modern feminism had gotten it at least partly wrong. . . . In devaluing the home and the vast range of domestic work--childrearing included--and in fighting a fight largely for the right to work outside the home, the modern feminist movement ignored a singular power already available to women and, maybe more important, to the collective imagination. Rather than fighting to re-invent the home, or to effect a real transformation of values, or to legitimize and legalize the domestic and childrearing work that so many women engage in--which is necessary to support any mother's work outside the home--we have found it easier to map power where it already existed. Is this really my only choice? Between the intense demands of an academic career (supported by full-time childcare) and the mind-deadening contemplation of Cheerios?
Lisa Catherine Harper (A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize))
Like,” he repeats with distaste. “How about I tell you what I don’t like? I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where they shouldn’t be—basically, gimmicks of any kind. I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful—nonfiction only, please. I do not like genre mash-ups à la the literary detective novel or the literary fantasy. Literary should be literary, and genre should be genre, and crossbreeding rarely results in anything satisfying. I do not like children’s books, especially ones with orphans, and I prefer not to clutter my shelves with young adult. I do not like anything over four hundred pages or under one hundred fifty pages. I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and—I imagine this goes without saying—vampires. I rarely stock debuts, chick lit, poetry, or translations. I would prefer not to stock series, but the demands of my pocketbook require me to. For your part, you needn’t tell me about the ‘next big series’ until it is ensconced on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Above all, Ms. Loman, I find slim literary memoirs about little old men whose little old wives have died from cancer to be absolutely intolerable. No matter how well written the sales rep claims they are. No matter how many copies you promise I’ll sell on Mother’s Day.
Gabrielle Zevin (The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry)
Like,” he repeats with distaste. “How about I tell you what I don’t like? I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where they shouldn’t be—basically, gimmicks of any kind. I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful—nonfiction only, please. I do not like genre mash-ups à la the literary detective novel or the literary fantasy. Literary should be literary, and genre should be genre, and crossbreeding rarely results in anything satisfying. I do not like children’s books, especially ones with orphans, and I prefer not to clutter my shelves with young adult. I do not like anything over four hundred pages or under one hundred fifty pages. I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and—I imagine this goes without saying—vampires. I rarely stock debuts, chick lit, poetry, or translations. I would prefer not to stock series, but the demands of my pocketbook require me to. For your part, you needn’t tell me about the ‘next big series’ until it is ensconced on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Above all, Ms. Loman, I find slim literary memoirs about little old men whose little old wives have died from cancer to be absolutely intolerable. No matter how well written the sales rep claims they are. No matter how many copies you promise I’ll sell on Mother’s Day.” Amelia blushes, though she is angry more than embarrassed. She agrees with some of what A.J. has said, but his manner is unnecessarily insulting. Knightley Press doesn’t even sell half of that stuff anyway. She studies him. He is older than Amelia but not by much, not by more than ten years. He is too young to like so little. “What do you like?” she asks. “Everything else,” he says. “I will also admit to an occasional weakness for short-story collections. Customers never want to buy them though.” There is only one short-story collection on Amelia’s list, a debut. Amelia hasn’t read the whole thing, and time dictates that she probably won’t, but she liked the first story. An American sixth-grade class and an Indian sixth-grade class participate in an international pen pal program. The narrator is an Indian kid in the American class who keeps feeding comical misinformation about Indian culture to the Americans. She clears her throat, which is still terribly dry. “The Year Bombay Became Mumbai. I think it will have special int—” “No,” he says. “I haven’t even told you what it’s about yet.” “Just no.” “But why?” “If you’re honest with yourself, you’ll admit that you’re only telling me about it because I’m partially Indian and you think this will be my special interest. Am I right?” Amelia imagines smashing the ancient computer over his head. “I’m telling you about this because you said you liked short stories! And it’s the only one on my list. And for the record”—here, she lies—“it’s completely wonderful from start to finish. Even if it is a debut. “And do you know what else? I love debuts. I love discovering something new. It’s part of the whole reason I do this job.” Amelia rises. Her head is pounding. Maybe she does drink too much? Her head is pounding and her heart is, too. “Do you want my opinion?” “Not particularly,” he says. “What are you, twenty-five?” “Mr. Fikry, this is a lovely store, but if you continue in this this this”—as a child, she stuttered and it occasionally returns when she is upset; she clears her throat—“this backward way of thinking, there won’t be an Island Books before too long.
Gabrielle Zevin (The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry)
secondary ELA (English Language Arts) teachers are keenly aware of what “close reading” and the ratio of what the fiction to non-fiction literary requirements are whereas secondary mathematics teachers know what the Common Core is calling for in the area of reform math.
Terry Marselle (Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound)
Within that single fifteen-month period—perhaps the most creative in American literary history—Grant would not only write his Personal Memoirs, Twain would reach the peak of his career with the publication of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Those two books, perhaps the finest work of American nonfiction ever written and the greatest of all American novels, defined their legacy.
Mark Perry (Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America)
No one can expect to write well who will not first take the risk of writing badly.
Phillip Lopate (To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (An Essential Guide for Writers))
Even if it were the case that they could have intuited the same insight strictly from scenes, I still would want to encourage emerging writers to put into words what they think about an experience when retelling it.
Phillip Lopate (To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (An Essential Guide for Writers))
The Random Book Club is an offshoot of the shop which I set up a few years ago when business was sore and the future looked bleak. For £59 a year subscribers receive a book a month, but they have no say over what genre of book they receive, and quality control is entirely down to me. I am extremely judicious in what I choose to put in the box from which the RBC books are parcelled and sent. Since subscribers are clearly inveterate readers, I always take care to pick books that I think anyone who loves reading for its own sake would enjoy. There is nothing that would require too much technical expertise to understand: a mix of fiction and non-fiction, with the weight slightly towards non-fiction, and some poetry. Among the books going out later this month are a copy of Clive James’s Other Passports, Lawrence Durrell’s Prospero’s Cell, Iris Murdoch’s biography of Sartre, Neville Shute’s A Town Like Alice, and a book called 100+ Principles of Genetics. All the books are in good condition, none is ex-library, and some – several of them each year – are hundreds of years old. I estimate that if the members decided to sell the books on eBay, they would more than make their money back. There is a forum on the web site, but nobody uses it, which gives me an insight into the type of person who is attracted to the idea – they don’t like clubs where they have to interact with other people. Perhaps that is why I came up with the idea in the first place – it is a sort of Groucho Marx approach to clubs. There are about 150 members and, apart from a minimal amount of advertising in the Literary Review, the only marketing I do is to have a web site and Facebook page, neither of which I have updated for some time. Word of mouth seems to have been the best way of marketing it. It has saved me from financial embarrassment during a very difficult time in the book trade.
Shaun Bythell (The Diary of a Bookseller (The Bookseller Series by Shaun Bythell Book 1))
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curriculum committee were not entirely wrong. Death is not a philosophical issue; it is a literary one. And yet, if philosophy
Lee Gutkind (True Stories, Well Told: From the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine)
Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting.
Susan Reynolds
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Lee Gutkind (You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction—from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between)
author of the national bestseller Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, which won the 2013 Toronto Book Award and was a finalist for the CBC’s Canada Reads and the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction. His second book, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone), was hailed as “essential reading” by the Globe and Mail and “brilliant” by The Walrus. A finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction as well as the Trillium Book Award, Brown won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Al-Solaylee, a two-time finalist for a National Magazine Award, won a gold medal for his column in Sharp in 2019.
Kamal Al-Solaylee (Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From)
If you follow me on socials or have read other non-fictional pieces by me, then you know I talk my shit. But also know that I don't talk out of my ass. Everything I write about comes from my research, whether that be in person or from doing the reading. And whenever my posts, essays, or whatever are based on anecdotal evidence, they are ALWAYS from genuine sources. I know my "hot takes" or whatever you choose to call them, may cause some animosity or negative feelings from readers. As I've said in the past, I have no control over how my words are perceived. But I want to make a few things clear:  1) You can disagree, but don't insult my intelligence as a Black woman, EVER. I deal with it enough from people in and outside the literary world who feel that you aren't allowed to be smarter than them because you don't look like them. So know your place when indulging in my space—this my shit.  2) I said what I said.  After reading this book, I hope you take what you've read and apply it somewhere that benefits marginalized women of color. Otherwise, why are you here?  Thank you for choosing this book.  If you aren’t familiar with me, then now is the time to get familiar.  -Chanel Hardy
Chanel Hardy (Body on the Line: A Collection of Poetry & Personal Essays)
As Kafka advised, “In the struggle between yourself and the world, you must side with the world.
Phillip Lopate (To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (An Essential Guide for Writers))
As a literary critic, you want to criticize colonialism, capitalism, and racism and to study literature by people of color, especially Asian Americans. You tell your English department chair, one of the most famous American literary scholars in the country, that you want to write a dissertation on Vietnamese American literature. He gazes at you with mild concern through his glasses and says, You can’t do that. You won’t get a job. Perhaps true, perhaps not. But you are outraged. The right response is not to accept the status quo but hope to transcend it. If not today, then in the future. Your department, however, believes in tradition and the canon, requiring you to read Beowulf through Chaucer and Shakespeare, the Romantics and the Victorians, the realists and modernists, so you can talk to your entire profession.
Viet Thanh Nguyen (A Man of Two Faces)
All of the major publishers and most of the midsized ones will only accept agented submissions.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
the western canon
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
Don’t get intimidated by this.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
If your goal is to find the right home for your book, even if that home is a smaller publisher and the advance is modest, you need to engage an agent who is willing to do that.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
I once represented an author who had written a book I loved, but I couldn’t find a publisher for it. I sent it to about forty houses. No luck. Finally, after three years, I found a publisher. The author got a $1,000 advance. I received a $150 commission. But I don't think I have ever been happier or more fulfilled than when I sold that book. That’s the kind of work you want your agent to do.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
You can’t just recycle your blog material into a book. If it’s already available for free online, why would anyone want to pay $25 to read the same material in book form?
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
Almost all book editors live and work in New York.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
Every acquisition editor gets 10-20 proposals a week. Every one of those proposals has been selected by an agent only after a robust vetting process. Almost all of them will have a compelling reason to get published. But the editor will probably only be allowed to publish 10 to 20 books a year.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
Peter [Peter Ginna] has been a book editor for over 30 years. He has worked at Bloomsbury USA, Oxford University Press, Crown Publishers, and St. Martin's Press. Authors he has worked with include James McPherson, David Hackett Fischer, David Oshinsky, Daniel Ellsberg (my client), and Suze Orman.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
literary memoir.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
compelling narrative arc.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
When you say what genre your book is, make sure it is a term of art that is common in publishing. Don’t say, for instance, your book is a “non-fiction novel.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
Finding an Agent A writer died and was given the option of going to heaven or hell. She decided to check out each place first. As the writer descended into the fiery pits, she saw row upon row of writers chained to their desks in a steaming sweatshop. As they worked, they were repeatedly whipped with thorny lashes. "Oh my," said the writer. "Let me see heaven now." A few moments later, as she ascended into heaven, she saw rows of writers, chained to their desks in a steaming sweatshop. As they worked, they, too, were whipped with thorny lashes. "Wait a minute," said the writer. "This is just as bad as hell!" "Oh no, it's not," replied her guide. "Come on!" she protested. "What's the difference?" "Here," the guide said, "the writers have agents.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
Always, always, always have a professional tone.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
Once you have a list of 20-30 potential agents, send out your query letters. Send them simultaneously.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
We make sure the projects that get to an editor’s desk
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
My advice is to shake it out, and move on to the next project.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
compelling reason to get published.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
So you have some pretty stiff competition.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
I see things getting published that just aren’t that good.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
well written and well crafted,
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
well written and well crafted, but they seem kind of the same.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
Whenever I give presentations before authors’ groups, I try to be brutally honest about the realistic chances of getting published.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
got between 15-30 submissions a week; probably 80 percent of those were agented,
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
acquired 15 to 20 new titles a year, out of all of those.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
And of those titles you published, how many ended up making money? Peter: Probably around a third or fewer turned a profit for the house in the first few years, though my list was generally oriented toward books that, with luck, would backlist and generate money over the long term.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
First, do they truly get my work—do they understand what I’m trying to do and know how to help me realize it?
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
Second and equally important, do I have the right relationship, the right chemistry, with this agent? Not only do I trust them, which is critical, but is their style of doing business going to mesh with mine?
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
Agents come in all shapes and sizes and personalities—some are very warm and fuzzy,
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
Peter: I don’t think the agent’s location is important. If you were in New York, I’d enjoy having lunch with you more often, but as an editor it is much more important to me that you a) always had high-quality submissions and never wasted my time and b) were always professional and a straight shooter. Those are the qualities that get an agent’s clients favorable attention from a publisher, not whether the agent is in Manhattan.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
I wouldn’t deviate too much from the format. Editors are used to it and find it easier to analyze the project when it is organized in a familiar style and structure.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
the agent expresses an interest, you need to send the book proposal to him right away.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
most authors get it wrong.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
most frequent mistake I see with query letters is they are too long.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
describe the book and explain why it should be published in just a few sentences.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
The biggest problem I see with proposals that are otherwise worthy is when the author seems to be smitten with two ideas and is trying to shoe horn both of them into a single project.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
Remember agents are inveterate name droppers. They will trumpet their big name clients
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
But publishers make acquisition decisions that often have little to do with the quality of your project. Sometimes they have another book like yours on their list, and they don’t want to compete with their own title.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
But, if I may be so blunt–you, gentle reader–are not Kim Kardashian.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
from the inside eyes of one of Hollywood’s few female paparazzi.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
Thank you for your consideration.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
all derivatives of the book (licenses, abridgements, TV/film rights, mugs and T shirts, to name just a few).
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
You would be better served by a newer agent, one who is building his list and is willing to take some chances.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
Typically for any proposal I am representing, I will do the research and submit to as many as 40 publishers. I might get 2 offers, 1 offer, or no offers.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
What is Platform?
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
robust vetting process.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
Peter has been a book editor for over 30 years. He has worked at Bloomsbury USA, Oxford University Press, Crown Publishers, and St. Martin’s Press. Authors he has worked with include James McPherson, David Hackett Fischer, David Oshinsky, Daniel Ellsberg (my client), and Suze Orman.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)
Peter [Ginna, Peter]has been a book editor for over 30 years. He has worked at Bloomsbury USA, Oxford University Press, Crown Publishers, and St. Martin's Press. Authors he has worked with include James McPherson, David Hackett Fischer, David Oshinsky, Daniel Ellsberg (my client), and Suze Orman.
Andy Ross (The Literary Agent's Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal)