Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012.

On writing, editing, and publishing : essays explicative and hortatory / Jacques Barzun ; With a foreword by Morris Philipson. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1971 - xi, 130 p. 21 cm.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Writer to his mates
A writer's discipline
English as she's not taught
Food for the NRF

Writers and editors
Lincoln the writer
Poe as proof reader
The Bibliographer and his absence of mind

Writer contra medium
Paradoxes of publishing
Quote'me is Taboo
The screening M imis

Envoy: of making books

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Authorship.
Creative writing.
Authors and publishers.
Editing.

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