WHAT ABOUT THE BABY?

What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction gathers the bestselling novelist Alice McDermotts pithiest wisdom about he r chosen art, acquired over a lifetime as an acclaimed writer and teacher of writing.From technical advice (check that your verbs a rent burdened by unnecessary hads and woulds) to setting the bar (I expect the fiction I read to carry with it the conviction tha t it is written with no other incentive than that it must be written), from the demands of readers (theyd been given a story with a baby in it, a...[Read more]