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The Faith of a Writer is Joyce Carol Oates's short book of essays on why and how she writes, drawn from her own career and from writers she admires. It is part memoir, part craft guide, and part meditation on the reading life. At around 150 pages it is a quick, dense read rather than a step-by-step manual. Readers who want exercises and formulas should look to craft handbooks; readers who want a working novelist's reflections will find it more rewarding than most how-to guides.
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Reviewers tend to value the book as an intimate look at how Oates thinks about writing rather than as a craft manual. Writers praise its honesty and its defense of reading as part of the craft. Some readers find it thin on concrete technique and uneven across essays.
Any biography enthusiast might want to read this book, if you haven't already. Reading books is one of the great joys in life, so buying a new one is never wrong.
