(Don't) Stop Me if You've Heard This Before

Book cover of (Don't) Stop Me if You've Heard This Before: and Other Essays on Writing Fiction

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In (Don't) Stop Me If You've Heard This Before, Peter Turchi combines personal narrative and close reading of a wide range of stories and novels to reveal how writers create the fiction that matters to us. Building on his much-loved Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, Turchi leads…

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1 author picked (Don't) Stop Me if You've Heard This Before as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Margot Livesey

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Peter Turchi is an amazing guide to writing which is to say he is an amazing guide to reading. This book explores fiction in terms of power dynamics, imagery, digressions—think Tristram Shandy—and story-telling, (among other topics). Turchi argues passionately for the pleasures of close reading. I especially love his chapter on characters who tell stories—why do they tell them, what if we want them to shut up?

From Margot's list on reading and writing fiction.