title: The Borzoi Practice Book for Writers
author: Michael Hennessy
description: It engages students in exercises based on real dialogue. Includes sample writing from scientific, social science, humanities, popular journals and magazines, and student papers form the basis of this writing/work text
zlib_text: THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
  PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
  Copyright © 2013 by David Shields
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of
  Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada, Limited,
  Toronto.
  www.aaknopf.com
  Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
  This page constitutes an extension of this page.
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Shields, David, 1956–
  How literature saved my life / by David Shields. —1st ed.
  p. cm.
  “This is a Borzoi book.”
  eISBN: 978-0-307-96153-2
  1. Shields, David, 1956—–Books and reading.
    2. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
     3. Criticism. I. Title.
     PS3569.H4834Z469 2013
       813′.54—dc23
   [B]            2012036686
  Internal photo series by Tom Collicott and David Shields
  Front-of-jacket photograph by Geoff Spear
  Jacket design by Chip Kidd
  
  v3.1_r1
  
  For L.
  
  I am deeply grateful for a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim
  Found