Bird by Bird

"A warm, generous and hilarious guide through the writer''s world and its treacherous swamps." --Los Angeles TimesAdvice on writing and on life from an acclaimed bestselling author: "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he''d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Boli...