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Principles of Great Writing
Some Lessons from a Lifetime of Editing



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Many writers who have worked with me over the years have asked if I would write a book about writing. And now A Poetics of Fiction: Six Chapters on the Art of Imaginative Prose is available.


OTHER WORKS BY TOM
  • “Braid,” a story
  • “In the Room of the Angels,” a story
  • “Come, Labor On,” a story
  • A Brief Handbook of Revision for Writers
  • The Writer’s Life, from the Diaries of the World’s Great Writers, edited with Carol Edgarian
  • Audio Introduction to NYC Narrative Reading, 2005
  • An Interview with Tom Jenks
  • American Short Story Masterpieces, edited with Raymond Carver
  • “Shameless,” a recollection of Raymond Carver
  • Robert Altman’s Raymond Carver Movie
  • Ray and Tess: A Literary Love Story
  • The Origin of Ray's “Cathedral”
  • “The Old Man and the Manuscript,” an essay
  • “The Garden of Eden at Twenty-Five,” an essay
  • Tom Jenks podcast with the Hemingway Society



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