Writeful

by Gary Hoffman

Published in 1986 by Verve Press, this First Edition, first printing paperback text measures 5 1/2" by 8 1/2", with 211 pages.

211 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

After a year in architecture at UC Berkeley, Gary Hoffman studied writing and literature at UCLA where he received his BA and MA. After finishing PhD course work at USC, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary studies, he started a long career as a member of the Orange Coast College English department. His study of the Bauhaus approach to design at UC Berkeley influenced his methods for teaching writing; in 1984 he wrote WRITEFUL, a new approach to writing creative non-fiction. His wife Glynis helped to develop these ideas further and in 1997 Gary and Glynis coauthored, ADIOS, STRUNK & WHITE: A HANDBOOK FOR THE NEW ACADEMIC ESSAY. ADIOS is a resource book for teachers and writers that has also been used as a textbook at major colleges and universities.
Now, with over forty years teaching literature, art criticism and some studio art, Hoffman is well positioned to unravel the literary treasures of the Bible in his book POMEGRANATE GOSPEL: BIBLE REVIVALS FOR SECULAR TASTES. By offering both humorous and personal commentary through a variety of styles and forms—memoirs, literary analysis, epistles, Q&As, narratives, engagements with the visual arts—this book uses many of the approaches explained in ADIOS, STRUNK & WHITE to keep the reader a little off-balance, to open up a new awareness of the Bible’s secular richness.