Going to the Tigers by Robert Cohen - 9780472055555

Name: Going to the Tigers by Robert Cohen - 9780472055555
Brand: The University of Michigan Press

The University of Michigan Press

Going to the TigersEssays and Exhortations\nAuthor(s): Robert Cohen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472055555, 978-0472055555\nSynopsis\nIn this funny and perceptive collection, novelist and essayist Robert Cohen shares his thoughts on the writing process and then puts these prescriptions into practicefrom how to rant effectively as an essayist and novelist (The Piano Has Been Drinking), how to achieve your own style, naming characters (and creating them), how one manages ones own identity with being a writer in time and space, to the use of reference and allusion in ones work. Cohen is a deft weaver of allusion himself. In lieu of telling the reader how to master the elements of writing fiction, he shows them through the work of the writers who most influenced his own development, including Roth, Ellison, Kafka, and Robinson. Rooted in his own experiences, this collection of essay.