Don't Save Anything: Uncollected Essays, Articles, and

Don't Save Anything: Uncollected Essays, Articles, and Profiles

"In Donâ€™t Save Anything . . . Kay Eldredge Salter assembles her late husbandâ€™s bread-and-butter journalismâ€”yet how delicious good bread and butter can be! . . . As always, Salter emphasizes simple, vivifying details." â€”Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

One of the greatest writers of American sentences in our literary history, James Salterâ€™s acute and glimmering portrayals of characters are built with a restrained and poetic style. The author of several memorable works of fictionâ€”including Dusk and Other Stories, which won the PEN/Faulkner Awardâ€”he is also celebrated for his memoir Burning the Days and many nonfiction essays.

In her preface, Kay Eldredge Salter writes, â€œDonâ€™t Save Anything is a volume of the best of Jimâ€™s nonfictionâ€”articles published but never collected in one place until now. Though those many boxes were overflowing with papers, in the end itâ€™s not really a matter of quantity. These pieces reveal some of the breadth and depth of Jimâ€™s endless interest in the world and the people in it . . . One of the great pleasures in writing nonfiction is the writerâ€™s feeling of exploration, of learning about things he doesnâ€™t know, of finding out by reading and observing and asking questions, and then writing it down. Thatâ€™s what youâ€™ll find here.â€

This collection gathers Salterâ€™s thoughts on writing and profiles of important writers, observations of the changing American military life, evocations of Aspen winters, musings on mountain climbing and skiing, and tales of travels to Europe that first appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, People, CondÃ© Nast Traveler, the Aspen Times, among other publications.

Country	USA
Author	James Salter
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781640090019
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Counterpoint
Manufacturer	Counterpoint
NumberOfPages	320
PublicationDate	2017-11-01
Publisher	Counterpoint
ReleaseDate	2017-11-01
Studio	Counterpoint

Don't Save Anything: Uncollected Essays, Articles, and Profiles

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