Works by
Pamela Painter
(Writer)

Fiction

• Getting to Know the Weather (2008)
  "[Pamela Painter] is a writer who seems to revel in setting herself new challenges, in trying to get inside a host of different characters who move through vastly different worlds. Even within a single story, she can slide effortlessly from one character's point of view to another's.... This is a virtuoso performance, graceful and brave and full of feeling."

— Alicia Baker, The New York Times

• The Long and Short of It (1999)

Non-fiction

• WHAT IF? Fiction Exercises for Fiction Writers (1990, 2009) with Anne Bernays
  This how-to-write fiction book is comprised primarily of exercises introduced by brief but informative essays on the aspects of fiction. Long on specifics and short on theoretical information so often found in books about the art of writing, this text provides a practical, hands-on approach to writing fiction. Organized by the elements of fiction and concluded by an anthology of contemporary fiction, this book helps all fiction writers hone and improve their craft. The elements of fiction—character, point of view, dialogue, plot, style and revision. For those interested in improving fiction-writing skills.