Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy Advice And Confessions On Writing Love And Cannibals Illustrated Dinty W Moore by Dinty W. Moore 9781607748090, 9781607748106, 1607748096, 160774810X instant download after payment.

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 & essays from acclaimedauthor 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, & 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, & cocktail napkins—Professor Moore answers these questions, and more, demystifying the world of nonfiction once & 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. 

Dinty W. Moore is the founder & editor of Brevity & is the director of Ohio University’s BA, MA, & PhD in creative writing programs. He has authored various books of literary nonfiction as well as textbooks & craft guides, most notably Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy, & his memoir, Between Panic & Desire, won the GrubStreet National Book Prize. Moore has been published in Harpers, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Utne Reader, Salon, Okey-Panky,...