{"id":154,"date":"2006-11-05T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/2006\/11\/05\/reading-like-a-writer-francine-prose\/"},"modified":"2007-02-12T08:06:46","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T16:06:46","slug":"reading-like-a-writer-francine-prose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/2006\/11\/05\/reading-like-a-writer-francine-prose\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Like a Writer. Francine Prose."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Like a Writer. Francine Prose. 2006. ISBN 100060777044.  A guide<br \/>\nfor people who love books and for those who want to write them.  This is<br \/>\na guided tour of terrific writers and why their work endures, where it<br \/>\nlays out new methods, breaks or obeys rules and what each writer has to<br \/>\nteach you. Checkov, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Austen, Dickens,<br \/>\nWoolf, Le Carre, Joyce, Hemingway and many more (120 plus). This is what<br \/>\nyour first year literature class might have been, had the prof truly<br \/>\nstudied writing.  Prose believes the path to good writing comes from the<br \/>\nstudy of  great writers and how they deal with dialogue, words,<br \/>\nparagraphs, details, gestures, character and so forth. Completely<br \/>\ndifferent and you may end up look at all writing with a changed view.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-ca.amazon.ca\/e\/cm?t=wwwrocketbuil-20&amp;o=15&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=0060777044&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Book reviews for the business side of the technology industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Like a Writer. Francine Prose. 2006. ISBN 100060777044. A guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them. This is a guided tour of terrific writers and why their work endures, where it lays out new methods, breaks or obeys rules and what each writer has to teach you. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}