On Writing and Failure (eBook)

Marche Stephen Marche (Autor)

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2023
Sort of Books (Verlag)
978-1-914502-09-5 (ISBN)

Infos

'Good writers offer advice. Great writers offer condolences' If you want to be a writer, then you'd better be ready to hurl yourself at the door. That's the message from Stephen Marche in this irresistibly droll broadside. Perseverance, in the teeth of rejection, forms the essence of a writer's life. It's what it takes, so no whining. Even the greatest of writers grapple with failure. Marche's provocative, often very funny vignettes range through literary history from Samuel Johnson ('broke as f*ck') to Jane Austen's lacklustre publishing deals, to Dostoevsky facing mock-execution. The trick is to endure. As James Baldwin famously exhorts us: 'Write. Find a way to keep alive and write.'For new and seasoned writers, Marche's words are salutary and, in a paradoxical way, consoling. All writers are up against it. Success is just an attire.

Rezensionen

More heartening than a thousand cheery Instagram posts

I was considerably amused by Stephan Marche's short but pungent book ... it contains zingers

A sparkling cocktail of bittersweet jokes and fizzing truth bombs

Stephen Marche's charismatic essay ... critiques the romance of being a successful wordsmith

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.11.2023
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Always Take Notes • articles in New Yorker, New York Times, Esquire • author of AI novel ‘Death of an Author’ • Canadian author • contemporary culture non-fiction • Death of an Author • influential writer on AI • inspirational lecture • New Yorker, New York Times, Esquire • On Writing and Failure • podcast favourite • Stephen Marche • tech writer • writer on ChatGPT
• ISBN-10: 1-914502-09-4 / 1914502094
• ISBN-13: 978-1-914502-09-5 / 9781914502095