Reading list: A few favorites on writing well
Why I Write, George Orwell — the essay that brought you Orwell’s six rules for recovering the English language.
Daily Rituals, Mason Curry — to help inspire my writing life through the way I organize my day, by studying the way other creatives organized their day.
Draft No. 4, John McPhee — one of my favorite writers of creative nonfiction on his process: “Creative nonfiction is not making something up but making the most of what you have.”
Paris to the Moon, Adam Gopnik — not a book on writing well, but a really well-written book. This New Yorker correspondent is a keen and entertaining observer of the cultural, social, culinary, and economic differences between the American and French ways of life -- a popular theme, but he does it more smartly than most, I think.
