Going to the Tigers: Essays and Exhortations

by Robert Cohen

Book Overview

In this funny and perceptive collection, novelist and essayist Robert Cohen shares his thoughts on the writing process and then puts these prescriptions into practice--from how to rant effectively as an essayist and novelist ("The Piano has been Drinking"), how to achieve your own style, naming characters (and creating them), how one manages one's own identity with being "a writer" in time and space, to the use of reference and allusion in one's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472055550
• ISBN13: 9780472055555
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"