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Off The Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything in Between
Edited by Carole Burns, introduction by Marie Arana
Norton, 231 pages, $14.95 paper
“Whenever I sit down to write, I’m aiming for the green light at the end of the dock,” says fiction writer Tod Goldberg. But what do authors like Jhumpa Lahiri, Edward P. Jones, Tobias Wolff or Richard Ford have to say about their muses? That question and others about writing — how to bring characters to life, how to write about love — are the concerns of interviews by Carole Burns, host of washingtonpost.com’s “Off the Page,” which are artfully edited into thematic chapters.
