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have
never
known
a
man
with
a
more
acute
sense
of
what makes
a
book
readable.
 
John
Ciardi
The
Craft
of
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WILLIAM
SLOANE
 
The
Craft
of
Writing
William
Sloane
Introduction by
John
Ciardi
Edited
by
Julia Sloane
William Sloane was a fine writer of
both
fiction and nonfiction, but above
all
he was abrilliant editor, publisher, and teacher formore than forty
years.
To him, writing was
an
act of communication consummatedwhen the writer caused his reader to participate in the act of creation. He believed
that
inspiration,insights, wisdom, "art," couldnot be taught, but
that
the craft, the techniques
that
permitted those elements to becommunicated, could be taught. And no onetaught
that
craft
with
a
deeper understandingthan did William
Sloane.
In
this book are gathered chapters derived
largely
from lectures Sloane
gave
overtwenty-five
years
at the
Bread
Loaf
Writers'
Conference, his correspondence
with
pub
lished
(and some unpublished) writers, andeditorial memoranda dealing
with
the
specifics
of
a
writer's problems. As were all
his
communications, they are superbly ex
pressed.
He discusses the relationship
that
exists
Between
Writer
and Reader, the
Means
of Perception, Fiction and the Narrative
Process,
Scene, and Character and
Dialogue.
Other
chapters deal
with
the Non-fiction
Writer
and Knowing Your Material.
JACKET
DESIGN BY ROSALIND
LORBER
ISBN 0-393-04471-8
 
WILLIAM
SLOANE died in
1974
at the age
of
sixty-eight. His career as an editor andpublisher was distinguished by imagination,
care,
and
breadth
of
scope.
In these chapters
his
words remain fresh and
original.
His ownwriting included novels such as
To
Walk
theNight,
a
classic
in its field, and
The
Edge
of
Running
Water.
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