Writer at Work: Reflections on the Art and Business of Writing (Paperback or Softback)

Bouchier, David

ISBN 10: 0595351832 / ISBN 13: 9780595351831

Published by iUniverse 4/25/2005, 2005

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Writer at Work: Reflections on the Art and Business of Writing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writer at Work: Reflections on the Art and Business of Writing (Paperback or Softback)
• Publisher: iUniverse 4/25/2005
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595351832
• ISBN 13: 9780595351831
• Binding: Paperback or Softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 0.82 pounds
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

Writer at Work is the book about writing that somebody had to write. It's a report from the front lines by a working writer with a lifetime of experience in everything from literary fiction to radio and newspaper reporting. Writer at Work is full of provocative opinions and unexpected diversions. It combines practical advice, based on the author's long experience as a writing instructor, with lively and often funny reflections on the writing life.Writer at Work gives you the information, the excitement, the debates and the inspiration that you would find at a first-class writers' conference. This is the guide book you need to step up from being an amateur to being an professional writer.

About the Author

David Bouchier is the award-winning weekly essayist for National Public Radio Stations WSHU & WSUF in Fairfield, Connecticut, and hosts a Sunday afternoon program of classical music and commentary called “Sunday Matinee” on the same stations. For ten years he contributed a weekly humor column called "Out of Order" for the Long Island section of the Sunday New York Times. His commentaries and opinion columns have appeared in The Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and dozens more newspapers through syndication. He has contributed fiction and non-fiction to many literary and political magazines. Born in London, David Bouchier has worked as a journalist, broadcaster, lecturer, editor, book reviewer, freelance writer and college teacher on both sides of the Atlantic. He received a PhD from the University of London, and has taught at the University of Essex in England, The State University of New York Stony Brook, The University of California Santa Cruz, the University of Connecticut, Hofstra University, and The New School for Social Research in New York.