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Daugherty is that rare master of fiction and nonfiction, a prolific literary author who does it all with exceptional craft and vision. This new collection of essays and musings is deeply personal, philosophical, and instructive for writers. It begins with the Falling in Love with the written word and explores craft and imagination, mostly in brief meditations on authors, but also philosophers, painters, astronomers, and family members. As the title suggests, all this work and devotion has more t...
Part memoir, part literary analysis, part writing and reading lessons - all add up to a book worth a look for any writer or serious reader.
I am a big fan of Tracy Daugherty and his work. Some of the essays in this collection really stuck out to me as particularly insightful, essays that I wish I had read sooner, and these essays will hopefully have a long impact on the way that I approach writing and think about literature. At times, however, the writing became overly pretentious for me, to the point that I was skimming paragraphs, almost whole chapters, only to later force myself to go back and read them for fear of missing someth...
