{"product_id":"9781632863065","title":"Why Write?: A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why it Matters","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of America's great professors, author of \u003ci\u003eWhy Teach? \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhy Read?--\u003c\/i\u003ean inspiring study of the importance of writing well, for creators, educators, students, and anyone who writes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWhy write? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy write when it sometimes feels that so few people really read--read as if their lives might be changed by what they're reading? Why write, when the world wants to be informed, not enlightened; to be entertained, not inspired? Writing is backbreaking, mind-breaking, lonely work. So why?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause writing, as celebrated professor Mark Edmundson explains, is one of the greatest human goods. Real writing can do what critic R. P. Blackmur said it could: add to the stock of available reality. Writing teaches us to think; it can bring our minds to birth. And once we're at home with words, there are few more pleasurable human activities than writing. Because this is something he believes everyone ought to know, Edmundson offers us \u003ci\u003eWhy Write?\u003c\/i\u003e, essential reading--both practical and inspiring--for anyone who yearns to be a writer, anyone who simply needs to know how to get an idea across, and anyone in between--in short, everyone.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152036610288,"sku":"9781632863065","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781632863065_p0.jpg?v=1763675078","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781632863065","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}