The Art of X-Ray Reading
How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing
About the book
From The Great Gatsby and Lolita to The Bluest Eye, Roy Peter Clark draws writing lessons from 25 great works of literature. His method, which he calls X-ray reading, reads past a text's surface to find how its meaning gets made. Clark, a teacher of writing, leads a guided tour through these works, drawing out specific strategies that writers can take and apply in their own work. The approach rests on the idea that writers learn their best moves from reading closely. Its subjects span rhetoric, reading comprehension, authorship and the history and criticism of fiction.
Erik Rostad, creator of the Books of Titans project, made it the last addition to his 2019 reading list after hearing about it on a podcast, and said he absolutely loved it.
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Erik Rostad (Creator/Books of Titans project)
One of the final books I chose for my 2019 reading list was The Art of X-Ray Reading by Roy Peter Clark. I heard about this book in a podcast episode I listened to at the very end of the year. It was the last book I added to my list and I had to remove another book I had in the set of 52. This one sounded so interesting that I couldn't pass it up (and it was book 4 of my list and I absolutely loved it).
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