Dinty W. Moore 's Dear
Mister Essay Writer Guy: Advice and Confessions on Writing, Love, and Cannibals is
not really an advice book. Nor is it really about love or cannibals, although
there is advice in there to be gleaned, and he does mention both love and
cannibals. He also talks a lot about Michel de Montaigne, an essayist Dinty seems
to admire. It's really a string of confessions about writing and living as a
writer, and it's really very funny. It's also quite short, and the high ratio
of illustrations mean you're turning pages rather more rapidly than usual.
The book has an index, which I only mention because it helped me just now, when I couldn't remember how to spell Michel de Montaigne, but I'm not sure why it's there, except as a joke. Maybe it's a joke.
The book has an index, which I only mention because it helped me just now, when I couldn't remember how to spell Michel de Montaigne, but I'm not sure why it's there, except as a joke. Maybe it's a joke.
More on this later.
