The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing / by Roy Peter Clark

Little, Brown, 2013. Trade pb. VG. 

Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made. In The Art of X-Ray Reading, Clark invites you to don your X-ray reading glasses and join him on a guided tour through some of the most exquisite and masterful literary works of all time, from The Great Gatsby to Lolita to The Bluest Eye, and many more.