The Book Show #1284 - Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue

Published February 26, 2013 at 3:06 PM EST

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In 1973 in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor that encouraged him.

After much success they have written the new book, Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

, which explores three major non-fiction forms: narratives, essays, and memoirs.

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