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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Holt Paperbacks Edition 2010, 1st printing. 357pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Near Fine condition. "The world's best contemporary writers--from Michael Chabon and Jonathan Lethem to Alaa Al Aswany and Mario Vargas Llosa--engage in a wide-ranging, insightful, and oft-surprising roundtable on the art of writing fiction. [] Drawing back the curtain on the mysterious process of writing novels, THE SECRET MIRACLE brings together the foremost practitioners of the craft to discuss how they write. Paul Auster, Roddy Doyle, Allegra Goodman, Aleksandar Hemon, Susan Minot, Rick Moody, Haruki Murakami, George Pelecanos, Gary Shteyngart, and others take us step-by-step through the alchemy of writing fiction, answering everything from nuts-and-bolts queries--'Do you outline?'--to perennial questions posed by writers and readers alike: 'What makes a character compelling?' [] From Stephen King's deadpan distinction between novels and short stories ('Novels are longer and have more s**t in them') to Colm Toibin's anti-romanticized take on his characters ('They are just words') to José Manuel Prieto's mature perspective on the anxieties of influence ('Influences are felt or weigh you down more when young'), every page contains insights found nowhere else. [] With honesty, humor, and elegance, THE SECRET MIRACLE gives both aspiring writers and lovers of literature a master class in the art of writing." [publisher copy] "The miracle of this book resides in the editing, an invisible art itself. There is specific expertise in corralling disparate writers and writing styles, coordinating an array of opinions, and crafting a cohesive narrative out of the jumble. Alarcon has done just this. He dovetails the author responses one after the other like a well-edited film, and the effect is a seamless literary conversation."--Bookslut. Near Fine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine.