num_pages: 88
description: From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writerand so much more than that.Intriguing and inspirational this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push the boundaries of experience to see empathy and wonder in the stories we craft and hear.A paean to the power of language both by argument and by example Letters to a Young Writer is fierce and honest in its testament to the bruises delivered by writing as both a profession and a calling. It charges aspiring writers to learn the rules and even break them.These fifty-two essays are ultimately a profound challenge to a new generation to bring truth and light to a dark world through their art.
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title: Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers