Rendezvous With Writing
For Readers and Writers
Roy Peter Clark’s The Art of X-Ray Reading (Little, Brown Spark, 2016) is an excellent resource for showing readers how to look for and enjoy clever literary techniques that master authors have used over the centuries. Clark examines passages from Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Flannery O’Connor, Shakespeare, and others. With obvious love for language and literature, Clark “x-rays” 25 works in all. When he points out the structure, allusions, and beauty used within passages, he’ll make you want to run to the library or the book store and grab each of the classic stories he examines.
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