Beate Not the Poore Desk Short Fiction the sorrow that persists beside

the sorrow that persists beside joy--marks her as one of those rare writers genuinely committed to contradiction as an abiding state of consciousness

from Dante

threatens to destroy the rabbit resistance forever

He is like the missing piece in a puzzle---the piece that makes all the other pieces fit together

Beate Not the Poore Desk Short Fiction the sorrow that persists besideFor the first time, National Book Award winner Walter Wangerin, Jr., turns his keen eye upon the craft of writing. Adding a lifetime of experience to the wisdom and examples of other writers (Shakespeare, Goethe, Berry, Chaucer, and many more), he builds for us an intricate picture of the craft and its many subtitles. But in revealing his own missteps, his own processes, and his own story, Wangerin provides a lantern for young writers as they embark