A Long GameFrom bestselling and award winning author and professor Elizabeth McCracken comes an irresistible look at the art of writing. Writing can feel like an endless series of decisions. How does one face the blank page? Move a character around a room? Deal with time? Undertake revision? The good and bad news is that in fiction writing, there are no definitive answers to such questions: writers must come up with their own. Elizabeth McCracken, author of

Pirsig’s narrative of a father and son on a summer motorcycle trip becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life’s fundamental questions

the hunt and capture of the killers

haunted by loneliness and self-doubt

of art and nature

you’re bringing a whole world of trouble down on yourself

Leaving Cecil Street

But taking down this murderous psycho is another matter

until young Gabriel Godkin runs away to join a traveling circus and look for his long-lost twin sister

Jeff MacGregor and his wife tracked the lives of superstar drivers like Junior Earnhardt and Tony Stewart

calculating risks and rewards

Parisians lived with urgency and without inhibition

Filled with great stories from the key people in Palmer’s life