DEAD WRITER: Writing Badly Is Easy
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When Lord Macaulay introduced English as the instrument of education in India, he
also bequeathed to us a legacy of language-use that is often stiff and bureaucratic. This
awkwardness plagues academic, journalistic, legal, even creative writing in India.
You fail as a writer if your writing is not concrete, if it is vague and abstract, and your reader
is unable to see what you mean. Writing Badly is Easy is a style guide for those who want to
write well. It presents advice given by award-winning creative writers-including Jonathan
Franzen, Jennifer Egan, Suketu Mehta, Marilynne Robinson, George Saunders and Colson
Whitehead-and noted thinkers like Alain de Botton, Andrew Ross, Anna Tsing, Kathleen
Stewart and Rob Nixon, as well as numerous others. Amitava Kumar's own essays on writing,
including his collaboration with Teju Cole, demonstrate the importance of blurring the line
between critical and creative writing. A manifesto for writing that is exuberant, imaginative
and playful, Writing Badly is Easy will change the way you think about reading and writing,
and reveal the pleasures to be had in the inventive use of language.
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