title: Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition, Boredom, Purity & Secrecy
author:  Lee Upton 
description: "Lee Upton has written a refreshingly honest, compact, ambitious, nuanced, anecdotal, and capacious book about writing. It will make you flinch with recognition. It may also steel your resolve and steady your hand. I find it exhilarating and even wise." -- <i>Edward Hirsch</i>
zlib_text: About the Book
  To the consternation of the Patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has
  arrived in Ankh-Morpork – a great clanging monster of a machine that
  harnesses the power of all of the elements: earth, air, fire and water. This
  being Ankh-Morpork, it’s soon drawing astonished crowds, some of whom
  caught the zeitgeist early and arrive armed with notepads and very sensible
  rainwear.
  Moist von Lipwig is not a man who enjoys hard work. As master of the
  Post Office, the Mint and the Royal Bank his input is, of course, vital . . .
  but largely dependent on words, which are fortunately not very heavy and
  don’t always need greasing. However, he does enjoy being alive, which
  makes a new job offer from Vetinari hard to refuse.
  Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mr Simnel, the man wi’ t’flat cap
  and sliding rule who has an interesting arrangement with the sine and
  cosine. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat
  controller with a history of throwing employees