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A Year of Writing Dangerously

A Scholarly Detective Story of the Lost Generation
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How do you write a book? With death threats, breakthroughs, and tennis, if you are scholar Keith Gandal. In A Year of Writing Dangerously, Gandal recounts the serendipitous bumps and perils of a sabbatical year spent researching and writing about the Lost Generation. Unsparingly funny and poignant, the book explores the sometimes surprising connections between people, documents, and ideas that define the creative process. With wit and wisdom, Gandal shows how writing a book is a lot like taking up competitive tennis, with the same pitfalls, characters, and opportunities that confront writers everywhere. Taking the reader on a quest for answers that leads from Foucault's papers through World War I-era US Army records, the United States Tennis Association, and finally, the masterworks of the Lost Generation, A Year of Writing Dangerously is a must-read for any writer, scholar, or part-time athlete looking for enlightenment.
Keith Gandal is a professor of English at City College of New York. He is the author of The Gun and the Pen: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and the Fiction of Mobilization and The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum.
Gandal vividly captures the emotions he experienced during a difficult research and writing project. An excellent read full of humor and intellectual and emotional depth. Anyone who is a writer or a want-to-be writer will appreciate this book. -- Nancy Gentile Ford, author of Americans All! Foreign-born Soldiers in World War I I loved this book. It holds your interest like a good murder mystery. Addressing a subject that matters and written with clarity, precision, and subtlety, it doles out genuine wisdom about how to try to live this complicated life we all seem to stumble through so badly. A pleasure to read. -- Ward Wilson, author of Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons
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