Views from the Loft
A Portable Writer's Workshop
by Daniel Slager, Editor
“If I don’t read every day, imagining I’m someone else, and if I don’t write every night, pretending to be someone else, I am nearly unbearable, and unable to bear my life.”
—Susan Straight, “Why I Write Fiction”
A who’s who of writers on writing spanning from the National Book Award-winning poet Mark Doty to Newberry Medal-winning children’s author Kate DiCamillo, and touching on issues as delicate as the representation of family in memoir and as hilarious as a “sad-epiphany poem” Mad Lib for frustrated poets, this book is an essential collection of crucial tips and challenging questions for everyone who puts pen to page in pursuit of art.
For thirty-five years the Loft Literary Center has provided a community for all writers—from the most experienced workshop junky to the first-time scribbler. Views from the Loft brings the collected wisdom of that community—its authors, students, and editors—together to give anyone the tools and inspiration they need to thrive in the writing life.
With more than 60 essays, including:
GRACE PALEY on the writer’s responsibility in the world
RICK BASS on writing and keeping your schedule open for the muse
MARILYN CHIN on grandfathers, cowlicks, and shoe glue in first drafts
of poems
LEWIS HYDE on embracing the mythology of wholeness in nonfiction
TED KOOSER on fostering a poetic life
SUSAN STRAIGHT on writing through clogged toilets, broken windows,
and the other charms of single-motherhood
Read an excerpt from Views from the Loft
Author's Bio:Based in Minnesota for the past thirty-five years, THE LOFT LITERARY CENTER is the nation’s largest and most comprehensive literary center, offering services for readers and writers at every level.
Prior to moving to Minneapolis in 2005, DANIEL SLAGER selected
and edited fiction at Harcourt Trade Publishers and at Grand Street, a
leading quarterly magazine of literature and fine arts in New York. He
is the Publisher of Milkweed Editions.
Quotes:"Views from the Loft: A Portable Writer's Workshop is packed
with inspirational, useful, and thought-provoking essays on the craft of
writing by some of the best writers around." —Star Tribune
"Views from the Loft: A Portable Writer's Workshop is a local
collection of essays that gets inside the minds and hearts of authors
and poets alike. The all-star cast of writers, including Kate DiCamillo
and Mark Doty, shares the trials and tribulations that paved the way to
successful careers. Some passages are clinical, while others are
inspirational, but each will motivate you to pick up a pen and write." —MSP Magazine
Marianne Combs of Minnesota Public Radio's "State of the Arts" blog calls Views from the Loft "35 years of literary wisdom." Read the article
"The volume's organization—separated into the categories of teaching, writing, critique, publication and writing for life— is meant to emulate the Loft's workshop model, to provide burgeoning writers with the 'tools and inspiration they need to thrive.' Thrive? That's a tall order. But delight in rummaging around in the advice, the grumbling, the erudition offered in these pages? For sure. Few genres go uncovered." —The Oregonian
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