Seven Stories Press A Life in Words

"""I believe this is a very important book for people who want to know what it means to be a writer."" —Barry Gifford “The most distinguished American writer of [his] generation . . . indeed its only author . . . with any claim to greatness.” –The Spectator (UK) “One of the great writers of our time.” – San Francisco Chronicle ""Nabokov once said 'I divide literature into two categories, the books I wish I had written, and the books I have written.' In the former category I would put books by Kurt Vonnegut, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, and Paul Auster."" —Umberto Eco (in the Paris Review) " ...