The Art of X-Ray Reading bookshots flames

The Art of X-Ray Reading bookshots flamesRoy Peter Clark, one of America's most influential writing teachers, offers writing lessons we can draw from 25 great texts. Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made. In The Art of X Ray Reading, Clark invites you to don your X ray reading glasses and join him on a guided tour

Louise Elton comes into Hap and Leonard's PI office to tell him that the police have killed her son

which features a Foreword by National Book Award winner Colum McCann

Detective Harry Bosch

and in the process this unlikely trio becomes the family that each had been searching for

and includes an extensive resources section

Combining the colorful pyrotechnics of Breaking Bad with the best of the gritty crime genre

An ancient Tibetan box

and their future—one where Max is responsible for saving the world

Carlin on evasive language: Just to demonstrate how far using euphemisms in language has gone

London can't find him in her memories of things to come

At first he resists

But since any form of argument transforms him into an unholy terror