This book gets mixed reviews on Goodreads from people who don‘t like that some essays are pulled from other places, but I didn‘t mind that at all; I hadn‘t read them before. Russo discusses his teaching and his personal life as it relates to his writing. Weirdly, since I‘m not a writer, I found his discussion of why writers often avoid the 3rd person omniscient voice and the freedom that pov can allow to be especially interesting.