Jay Woodruff

This is so helpful in the classroom - Opening the book to show students what a revision looks like on the page takes the word revision from an abstraction to a possible reality for them. Also, it helps to let them know that real writers - famous ones - don't just magically create perfect art the first time.

This is so helpful in the classroom - Opening the book to show students what a revision looks like on the page takes the word revision from an abstraction to a possible reality for them. Also, it helps to let them know that real writers - famous ones - don't just magically create perfect art the first time.

The writers: Tobias Wolff, Joyce Carol Oates, Tess Gallagher, Robert Coles, Donald Hall. For each writer there is a piece of writing, an interview with the author, and a discussion of a draft or earlier version of the work. An extremely useful book about a little-discussed subject--revision.