The Story I Am
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The Story I Am

Mad About the Writing Life

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The Story I Am

Mad About the Writing Life

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About This Book

" This is a gorgeous book, one that will inspire anyone to make the next sentence."—Jericho Brown, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2020"A hymn of praise for the craft of weaving words in order to survive."—Kitty Kelley

Roger Rosenblatt has always been "mad about the writing life." In this new collection, he shares the stories and insights about writing that have inspired him, as a journalist, a columnist for The Washington Post, an essayist for Time magazine and The New Republic, and then as the author of best-selling books like Making Toast, Rules for Aging, Kayak Morning, and Unless It Moves the Human Heart. The new and beloved pieces in The Story I Am: Mad About the Writing Life, drawn from his vast body of work, celebrate the art, the craft, and the soul of writing.

Here are essays and excerpts on the rewards and punishments of the life of a writer, along with thoughts on how to write, what to write, and why writing lies at the heart of human hope and experience. Reviewing Rosenblatt's memoir The Boy Detective in the New York Times Book Review, Pete Hamill said Rosenblatt "writes the way a great jazz musician plays, moving from one emotion to another." For Rosenblatt, writing, like jazz, is the art of improvisation. Rosenblatt writes that "Writing makes justice desirable, evil intelligible, grief endurable, and love possible." In a nutshell, it's worth a life.

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Publisher
Turtle Point Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781885983794
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. From the Memoir: Kayak Morning
  8. The Writer in the Family
  9. Dogstoevsky
  10. May I Kill You?
  11. Everyone’s Work Is Magnificent
  12. My Bear
  13. From the Unpublished Novel: Young Murph
  14. The Writer’s Wife
  15. From the Book-length Essay: The Book of Love
  16. From the Memoir: Kayak Morning
  17. Mash Note
  18. From the Novel: Thomas Murphy
  19. Essays. I, Too, Dislike Them
  20. Humiliation, Mon Amour
  21. Nobody Is Thinking About You
  22. From the Unpublished Memoir: Unaccompanied Minor
  23. From the Memoir: The Boy Detective
  24. From the Unpublished Memoir: Unaccompanied Minor
  25. The Disease That Takes Your Breath Away
  26. From the Novel: Thomas Murphy
  27. From the Unpublished Memoir: Unaccompanied Minor
  28. Fathers’ Days
  29. From the Memoir: Making Toast
  30. From the Unpublished Novel: Young Murph
  31. From the Memoir: The Boy Detective
  32. From the Memoir: Kayak Morning
  33. The Giant Rat of Sumatra
  34. Flower Children
  35. From the Memoir: Making Toast
  36. From the Book on Writing: Unless It Moves the Human Heart
  37. Form Rescues Content
  38. If It’s Just a Teeny-Weeny Bit Wrong—Destroy It
  39. As Good as It Gets
  40. From the Memoir: The Boy Detective
  41. Aubade
  42. From the Novel: Thomas Murphy
  43. From the Memoir: Making Toast
  44. Things Invisible to See
  45. From the Memoir: Kayak Morning
  46. From the Unpublished Novel: Young Murph
  47. Dead Bird
  48. Love Song
  49. The Writer as Detective
  50. If You Are Strange Enough, They Will Come
  51. From the Memoir: The Boy Detective
  52. From the Unpublished Memoir: Unaccompanied Minor
  53. From the Novel: Thomas Murphy
  54. From the Unpublished Memoir: Unaccompanied Minor
  55. From the Book-length Essay: The Book of Love
  56. From the Novel: Thomas Murphy
  57. Metaphor and Simile
  58. From the Memoir: Kayak Morning
  59. From the Unpublished Novel: Young Murph
  60. Nature Writing
  61. From the Memoir: Making Toast
  62. Snow on a Beach
  63. From the Memoir: Making Toast
  64. From the Novel: Lapham Rising
  65. From the Unpublished Memoir: Unaccompanied Minor
  66. Better Angels
  67. “I Am Writing Blindly”
  68. Words on Pieces of Paper
  69. From: A Letter to the Year 2086
  70. From the Novel: Thomas Murphy
  71. From the Memoir: The Boy Detective
  72. From the Memoir: Making Toast
  73. A Writer’s Speech for a High School Graduate
  74. Do Not Go to Your Left
  75. From the Memoir: Kayak Morning
  76. Is That All There Is?
  77. From the Memoir: The Boy Detective
  78. From the Memoir: The Boy Detective
  79. It’s Not About You
  80. Time Is, Time Was
  81. From the Play: Ashley Montana Goes Ashore in the Caicos
  82. Poems and a Prisoner
  83. From the Memoir: Kayak Morning
  84. From the Unpublished Memoir: Unaccompanied Minor
  85. Spark’s Other Notes
  86. A Christmas Carol
  87. Do Not Go for Cyrano’s Nose
  88. Would You Mind If I Borrowed This Book?
  89. Life in the Margins
  90. From the Memoir: The Boy Detective
  91. From the Unpublished Memoir: Unaccompanied Minor
  92. A Teacher of Books
  93. From the Unpublished Memoir: Unaccompanied Minor
  94. From the Memoir: The Boy Detective
  95. From the Unpublished Memoir: Unaccompanied Minor
  96. Call Us Ishmael
  97. From the Unpublished Memoir: Unaccompanied Minor
  98. On the Other Hand, Writer, Rejoice
  99. From the Book-length Essay: The Book of Love
  100. From the Play: Ashley Montana Goes Ashore in the Caicos
  101. A Girl Sits Weeping
  102. From the Novel: Thomas Murphy
  103. From the Memoir: Making Toast
  104. Thanksgiving Inventory
  105. From the Novel: Thomas Murphy
  106. What Should We Lead With?
  107. The News About Jessica
  108. The Game Is Played Away from the Ball
  109. In the Madhouse in Beirut
  110. From the Book-length Essay: The Book of Love
  111. From the Play: Ashley Montana Goes Ashore in the Caicos
  112. From the Novel: Thomas Murphy
  113. Instructions to the Pallbearers
  114. If I Sing You a Song
  115. Just a Song at Twilight
  116. Acknowledgments
  117. About the Author