How to Tell a Story: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers

$18.95 at The Getty Museum.

An inviting and highly readable new translation of Aristotle's complete Poetics―the first and best introduction to the art of writing and understanding stories. Aristotle's Poetics is the most important book ever written for writers and readers of stories―whether novels, short fiction, plays, screenplays, or nonfiction. Aristotle was the first to identify the keys to plot, character, audience perception, tragic pleasure, and dozens of other critical points of good storytelling. Despite being written more than…