11 Best Books to Gift Writers and Aspiring Authors

In one of the chapters of Jami Attenberg’s memoir, I Came All This Way To Meet You, she describes getting drinks with another writer. Attenberg had just found success—good reviews, invested readers—with one of her novels, and this other writer wanted to know how she’d done it. Why this book, why now? The formula for writerly success. The short answer: no formula. As Attenberg writes: “The thing with being a novelist—or really with any creative endeavor—is we have to willingly enter into the not knowing.” This book, then, is no formula, either. Instead, it’s a sharp account of one person’s… Read Full Article