On Writing, Editing, and Publishing: Essays, Explicative and Hortatory

by Jacques Barzun

Book Overview

A collection of essays based on everyday events, and offered as a guide for aspiring new writers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226038580
• ISBN13: 9780226038582
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Nice Breadth

Barzun's collection of essays provides a kaleidoscopic view of a variety of aspects of writing, reading and publishing. A delight to read, the book does feel a little dated -- some of the references and situations that Barzun uses seem to suggest a much earlier time. But overall, an excellent collection.

Excellent essays on writer's block, poor writing, etc.

Essays by Barzun from the 1940s to the 1970s on such topics as writer's block and the discipline required to write, the fine art of translation, the ubiquity of poor writing, and the book publishing business. Superbly written. Most of these essays are still entirely true and eye-opening.