THE LAKE MATTERS: Notes about Writing and Life

Here is a special, generous book that will provide companionship and insight for writers and artists of every stripe from the novice to the seasoned practictioner. The Lake Matters is Aram Saroyan’s wide-ranging, open-ended discussion of the literary life as he has known it over a decades-long career during which his books have included Complete Minimal Poems, winner of the 2008 William Carlos Williams Award, Artists in New Stories, and 2010’s Door to the Essays and Reviews from the 1960s into the Digital Age. The Lake Matters is infused with a literary practitioner’s enduring sense of his vocation, from the nuts and bolts of composition to navigating the marketplace to Saroyan’s rare candor about the inner life of a writer in our complex, changing society.