Keep Calm and Query On: Notes on Writing (and Living) with Hope
"Reading Keep Calm and Query Onis like sitting down one afternoon with a good friend, a fellow writer who knows first-hand about the daily struggles of the writing life. Only this friend is also wise and caring and generous with his support. And when the day is over and you have to leave, you go with the quiet certainty that you are on the right path."--Francisco X. Stork, author of the novels Marcelo in the Real World and Irises" 'Stubbornness saved me,' says Charles Baxter in Luke Reynolds's brave new book, Keep Calm and Query On, a collection of deeply honest personal accounts that show how a group of wise and gifted authors have developed and sustained the stubbornness every writer needs to survive."--Sarah Stone, author of the Booksense 76 Pick novel The True Sources of the Nile"Keep Calm and Query On is a rallying cry to writers of all ages to find out what drives them to make art. A compassionate, challenging, and creative call to writers everywhere--both aspiring and veteran."--Betsy Lerner, author of The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers"In this lucid, readable, warm and admirably honest book, Luke Reynolds offers up fine comfort for writers just starting out and those well established seeking to weather the inevitable struggles that at times attend a writing life."--E.J. Levy, author with work appearing in The New York Times, Best American Essays, and The Paris Review