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Title: Good Prose

Subtitle: The Art of Nonfiction

Author: Tracy Kidder, Richard Todd

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing - about the creation of good prose - and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of the Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged him, and from that article grew a lifelong association. Before long, Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine, the first book the two worked on together, had won the Pulitzer Prize.

Good Prose explores three major nonfiction forms: narratives, essays, and memoirs. Kidder and Todd draw candidly, sometimes comically, on their own experience - their mistakes as well as accomplishments - to demonstrate the pragmatic ways in which creative problems get solved. They also turn to the works of a wide range of writers, novelists as well as nonfiction writers, for models and instruction. They talk about narrative strategies, about the ethical challenges of nonfiction, and about the realities of making a living as a writer. They offer some tart and emphatic opinions on the current state of language. And they take a clear stand against playing loose with the facts. Their advice is always grounded in the practical world of writing and publishing.

Members Reviews:

A good read about writing

I enjoy writing "for myself". I have yet to work with an editor. It sounds like hard work. The long-standing relationship between Kidder and Todd came through very clearly in this book. I enjoyed reading about it and learned a lot in the process.

I was so bored by this book

I was so bored by this book. I only made it halfway through before I quit reading it but it felt a lot like a "toot my own horn" kind of book.

Pretty Good

But not great. I've read a few things by Tracy Kidder and I wasn't blown away but there aren't too many books for non-fiction writing out there worth their salt so I tried this one. I appreciated the memoir section yet Kidder should have taken his own advice. His memoir about serving a year in Vietnam was dull and seemed pointless.

Good Resource for Writers

Being a fledgling memoirist, I found this book most helpful. Not only for my own writing, but it helped me better understand and appreciate good non-fiction writing by others.

Five Stars

Excellent guide to writing non fiction or fiction for that matter.