The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers
by Ayn Rand
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Author: Ayn RandIntroduction: Peter Schwartz
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-02-01
ISBN: 0452282314
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Plume
Product features:
- ISBN13: 9780452282315
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Review: Judge Rand on the writing task before us
Summary: 4 Stars
In this slim volume we have a fair presentation of Rand's personal advice to writing colleagues, as given in a series of 1969 meetings. She disposes of writers' block, self-doubt, self-censorship, and muddled thought as someone with long experience in facing these goblins. Of course her program is colored by the Objectivist philosophy, which is for her essential to independent thought. But the way she applies this to writers' problems is quite practical and probably cross-cultural. At times she shows hints of a "greed is good" ideology, which sounds slightly less prophetic these days. But then she plows ahead, delivering sound advice on writing style, organization, work habits, editing, selecting topics, or reviewing books, always telling the writer what is essential and what to ignore.
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