In (Don't) Stop Me If You've Heard This Before, Peter Turchi
combines personal narrative and close reading of a wide range of
stories and novels to reveal how writers create the fiction that
matters to us. Building on his much-loved Maps of the Imagination:
The Writer as Cartographer, Turchi leads readers and writers to an
understanding of how the intricate mechanics of
storytelling-including shifts in characters' authority, the subtle
manipulation of images, careful attention to point of view, the
strategic release of information, and even digressing from the
(apparent) story-can create powerful effects. Using examples from
Dickens, Chekhov, and Salinger, and Twain to more contemporary
writers including Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, E. L. Doctorow, Jenny
Erpenbeck, Adam Johnson, Mohsin Hamid, Jai Chakrabarti, Yoko Ogawa,
Richard Powers, Deborah Eisenberg, Olga Tokarczuk, Rachel Cusk, and
Colson Whitehead, Turchi offers illuminating insights into the
inner workings of fiction as well as practical advice for writers
looking to explore their craft from a fresh angle beyond the
fundamentals of character and setting, plot, and scene. While these
essays draw from decades of teaching undergraduate and graduate
students, they also speak to writers working on their own. In "Out
of the Workshop, into the Laboratory," Turchi discusses how anyone
can make the most of discussions of stories or novels in progress,
and in "Reading Like a Writer" he provides guidelines for learning
from writing you admire. Perhaps best of all, these essays by a
writer the Houston Chronicle has called "one of the country's
foremost thinkers on the art of writing" are as entertaining as
they are edifying, always reminding us of the power and pleasure of
storytelling.
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