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Also by Colum McCann:

Twist, April 2025
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Letters to a Young Writer, April 2017
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Thirteen Ways of Looking, October 2015
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Transatlantic, June 2013
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LETTERS TO A YOUNG WRITER
By: Colum McCann

Some Practical and Philosophical Advice

Random House
April 2017
On Sale: April 4, 2017
192 pages
ISBN: 0399590803
EAN: 9780399590801
Kindle: B01LK8O5BU
Hardcover / e-Book
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From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writer—and 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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PBS News Hour - April 4, 2017