Working at Writing: Columnists and Critics Composing

by Robert L. Root Jr.

A survey of the composing processes of seven working writers--columnist/ essayists Jim Fitzgerald and Kathleen Stocking, political columnists Tom Wicker and Richard Reeves, drama critic Walter Kerr, and film critics David Denby and Neal Gabler--Working at Writing offers rich and unique insights into how writing is actually done.

The book has three interlocking elements: edited transcripts of interviews with the writers about their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809316862
• ISBN13: 9780809316861
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"