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A review by gregzimmerman
The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life by Richard Russo
5.0
How it escaped me until now that one of my all-time favorite writers had published a craft book / essay collection, I'm not sure. But imagine my delight when I was browsing on Independent Bookstore Day this year and found this.
I loved it -- it's all Russo's signature charm and humor on everything from one of his favorite writers Mark Twain to writing in the third-person omniscient point of view to how to "get good" at writing (hint: Lots of practice) to how to be funny (or not) to placing artists in the context of their art (or not).
Each of these pieces had been published before, and just collected here, but they do hang together under the general heading of, as the subhead tells us, "writing, writers, and life."
I loved it -- it's all Russo's signature charm and humor on everything from one of his favorite writers Mark Twain to writing in the third-person omniscient point of view to how to "get good" at writing (hint: Lots of practice) to how to be funny (or not) to placing artists in the context of their art (or not).
Each of these pieces had been published before, and just collected here, but they do hang together under the general heading of, as the subhead tells us, "writing, writers, and life."