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Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A. Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Paper Boards. Near Fine / Near Fine in Archival Plastic. Item #5297
ISBN: 0375411585
A handsome First Edition, First Printing signed by the author on the title page at a local signing. By the author of the best-selling "Plainsong." In dark brown and red paper boards, the books is in unread condition but has two tiny nicks on the spine. The dustjacket is complete and fine but for a tiny knick on the front crease.
In his final interview, conducted for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts by John Moore in 2014, writer Kent Haruf gave his best advice for aspiring writers: "The obvious thing is to read, read, read, read, read. Then write, write, write. There is no way around it. You have to do both of those things. But in terms of reading, I think you have to learn to read like a writer reads. That is, you are not reading for entertainment anymore. And you are not really even reading to see how a story plays out. What you are doing is reading to discover how somebody else has successfully done something on the page. So you are paying very close attention to what works, and what doesn’t work. And once you get to be a skillful reader, there is a different kind of pleasure in reading someone great. So no, I really don’t read much of anything except I go back over and over to Faulkner and Hemingway and, particularly, Chekhov. I never get tired of reading them. Every morning before I write, I read something from one of those writers, just to remind myself of what a sentence can be. I read every day. If I don’t, I feel it’s been an unsatisfactory day. I just don’t have time to read something that is not of the highest quality."
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