Description:
Salter raises the question, Why does one write? For wealth? For admiration, or a sense of importance? Confronting a blank sheet that always offers too many choices, practicing a vocation that often demands one write instead of live, the answer for Salter was creating a style that captured experience, in a world where anything not written down fades away.
Kapnick Foundation Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Lectures, reviewing a previous edition or volumeReview Quotes:
A confident precision is always there--whether Jim is writing about sexual longing, or when his subject is flying combat missions in Korea. What Jim believed, he was always able to express succinctly: 'Style is the entire writer.' These lectures make me miss him--his generous but undoubting voice.