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Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Introduction by Marie Arana. First Edition, 1st printing. 231pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Fine condition (slight-invisible warp). "Writer Carole Burns has put together an insightful, entertaining book about writing and the writing life, featuring 43 of our foremost contemporary authors. Reading OFF THE PAGE can feel like being at a dinner party with a Pulitzer Prize winner on one side and your favorite detective writer on the other as the third bottle of wine is opened and everyone is beginning to relax. [] In interviews in the Washington Post, Burns has gotten to the heart of writing by asking such questions as: Can good sex be written? Martin Amis doesn't think so. Are characters based on people the authors know? Richard Ford says no; Russell Banks says sometimes. Did you ever have doubts about your writing? Absolutely, says Michael Cunningham. [] These and other authors--including Edward P. Jones, Jhumpa Lahiri, Marisha Pessl, Walter Moseley, Margot Livesey, and Alice McDermott--talk honestly and forthrightly about the art of fiction." [publisher copy] "In a field crowded with dull and disappointing books, OFF THE PAGE is a joy to read and to re-read."--John Dufresne. Fine unmarked paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine (but that invisible warp to covers). Still quite presentable. …