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What does it mean to "be a writer"?
Even for those who live it, the writing life is often as much myth as reality. Drawing from more than a quarter century of experience as a working writer, David Giffels shares hard-earned lessons and advice. What are the habits for success? Why is failure important? What is the role of the editor? How does one deal with rejection? With praise? With deadlines and criticism? What does it mean, ultimately, to “be a writer”?
About the William N. Skirball Writers' Center's Writer in Residence, 2018-2019
David Giffels’s latest memoir, Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life, was praised by The New York Times Book Review as “tender, witty and ... painstakingly and subtly wrought,” and by Kirkus Reviews as “a heartfelt memoir about the connection between a father and son.” It was a January 2018 Book of the Month pick by Amazon and Powell’s Books and a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice.”
His previous books include The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches From the Rust Belt, and the memoir All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House, winner of the Ohioana Book Award. He is the coauthor, with Jade Dellinger, of the rock biography Are We Not Men? We Are Devo! and, with Steve Love, Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron.
A former Akron Beacon Journal columnist, his writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Parade, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Grantland, Redbook, and many other publications. He also was a writer for the MTV series Beavis and Butt-Head.
He is an associate professor of English at the University of Akron, where he teaches creative nonfiction in the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program.
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