The world is full of confusion. A new book helps writers make sense of it.

Roy Peter Clark says he never meant to write another book about writing.

Clark, a senior scholar at Poynter, had already written or edited 20 books about reading, writing and language. He is perhaps best known for his “Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer,” widely considered to be one of the more useful guides to the writing craft, deserving of a place on bookshelves next to Strunk’s “Elements of Style” and Zinsser’s “On Writing Well.” But Clark’s toolbox approach to writing — there are now six books in the collection inspired by “Writing Tools” — is delivered in a contemporary voice; I think of him as a folksy Ted Lasso for aspiring nonfiction writers.

After all that, what more was there to say?

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