The novelist, critic, and essayist has a new book out called ReadingLikeaWriter, and joins us to answer the question that haunts every frustrated genius: can creative writing be taught?
Her new book is called ReadingLikeaWriter: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, and she joins us from our bureau in New York.
And that really, to me, is the trick of readinglikeawriter, and the way that I read and the way I would think that people who want to be writers should be reading.