Painted Paragraphs: Inspired Description for Writers and Readers

by Donald Newlove

Gathers striking descriptive passages from various works of literature, and explains why they are successful

Genres: Writing

Paperback

First published November 1, 1993

About the author

Donald Newlove was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1928, and currently lives in New York City's Greenwich Village. As a reporter, book reviewer, and short story writer, his work appeared in Esquire, New York Magazine, Evergreen Review, and The Saturday Review. His first novel, The Painter Gabriel (1970), was hailed by Time Magazine as "one of the best fictional studies of madness, descent, and purification that any American has written since Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Newlove is the author of several other novels, a series of books on the art of writing, and the critically acclaimed memoir, Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other Writers (1981).

Reviews

[Clay · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not worth your time. I bought this book years ago and it sat on my shelf unread. Finally got around to it and was disappointed to find that very few of the examples included qualified as "inspired descriptions." The author eve had the gall to include an poorly written description from wife's novel-in-progress.

[Terri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Did not finish.