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About Graceby Anthony DoerrISBN 0143036165 (0-14-303616-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'About Grace'Book summary:[via]When Anthony Doerr's The Shell Collector was published in 2002, the Los Angeles Times called his stories "as close to faultless as any writeryoung or vastly experiencedcould wish for." He won the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Discover Prize, Princeton's Hodder Fellowship, and two O. Henrys, and shared the Young Lions Award. Now he has written one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling first novels of recent times.David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees things before they happena man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; Winkler will fall in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his infant daughter will drown in a flood as he tries to save her, he comes undone. He travels thousands of miles, fleeing family, home, and the future itself, to deny the dream.
On a Caribbean island, destitute, alone, and unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind.
Doerr's characters are full of grief and longing, but also replete with grace. His compassion for human frailty is extraordinarily moving. In luminous prose, he writes about the power and beauty of nature and about the tiny miracles that transform our lives. About Grace is heartbreaking, radiant, and astonishingly accomplished.
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Bedford Basics: A Workbook for Writersby Diana Hacker, Wanda Van GoorISBN 0312154577 (0-312-15457-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bedford Basics: A Workbook for Writers'Book summary:In a workbook format, Bedford Basics incorporates a streamlined version of the text from the highly successful Bedford Handbook with lower-level exercises. Because Bedford Basics follows the handbook's organization, it can easily be used in conjunction with the handbook in a composition sequence or it can stand alone in any developmental writing class. For the new edition, the exercises have been carefully revised after much classroom testing. In addition, several new features have been added to make this book more useful for culturally diverse students, students working on a computer, and students using the book on their own. [via]
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Blue Angelby Francine ProseISBN 0060882034 (0-06-088203-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Angel'Book summary:Francine Prose may never surpass Joyce Carol Oates in the Prolific Olympics, but she is one of those omnipresent writers whom failed writers hate. And surely she'll make new enemies with her hilarious and cruel 10th novel, Blue Angel, a satire of academia, specifically of English and writing departments. The setting is Euston College in rural Vermont, a place kids go to if they don't get into Bennington; a place where desperate novelists teach creative writing to rich kids who don't seem to read. Prose, who has taught at all the hotshot workshops, skewers both teachers and students in the way only a true insider could.
Swenson, her writing-teacher protagonist, once published a well-received novel but is now consumed by neuroses and repressed lust, and instead of writing tends to get drunk or morose, or both. But when a gifted student named Angela Argo enters his class, he feels like he is coming back to life. His resurrection into "believing" in writing again, and his eventual disappointment, form the core of the novel.
Prose's gift for satire is stunning as she directs her caustic wit at all the current academic debates: sexual-harassment policies warning against all manner of "touching"; deconstructionists versus Old School fuddy-duddies; women's studies teachers who bring everything back to the phallocentric Man killing us all. But Blue Angel's best passages come when the author is describing truly rotten writers. Here's a Connecticut rich girl, a member of Swenson's workshop, who likes to write about all those poor unfortunate nonwhite people. Her story is called "First Kiss--Inner City Blues" and is written from the point of view of a Latino woman who lives in a trash-strewn neighborhood full of gunfire and bad people. Here's the opening line: "The summer heat sat on the hot city street, making it hard for it to breathe, especially for Lydia Sanchez." It's a sentence so bad, it's almost a revelation. --Emily White [via]
Brontesby Juliet BarkerISBN 0312145551 (0-312-14555-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brontes'Book summary:The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wild romantic Emily, unrequited Anne and "poor Charlotte". Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that - imaginary - created by amateur biographers from Mrs Gaskell onwards who were primarily novelists, and were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family of genius. Later biographers still repeat her mistakes, and have, without exception, relied on the bowdlerised texts published by T.J. Wise, a forger. Juliet Barker's landmark book is the first definitive history of the Brontes. It demolishes the myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling - but true. Based on firsthand research among all the Bronte manuscripts, many so tiny they can only be read by magnifying glass, and among contemporary historical documents never before used by Bronte biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable. [via]
The College Handbook of Creative Writingby Robert DemariaISBN 0155053019 (0-15-505301-9)
Softcover, Heinle
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A Community of Writers: A Workshop Course in Writingby Peter Elbow, Pat BelanoffISBN 007303181X (0-07-303181-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Community of Writers: A Workshop Course in Writing'Book summary:This text provides a workshop approach to the teaching of composition. It addresses students as writers, challenging them to develop their skills by writing often, by exploring their writing processes, and by sharing their writing with others. The flexible workshops allow an instructor to organize and orient their course individually, and the book integrates readings - both student and professional - throughout. It also contains more than 100 writing assignments. [via]
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A Community of Writers: A Workshop Course in Writing/Sharing and Respondingby Peter Elbow, Pat BelanoffISBN 0079110800 (0-07-911080-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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A Contemporary Reader for Creative Writingby Robert Demaria, Ellen Hope MeyerISBN 0155007270 (0-15-500727-0)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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The Craft of Science Fiction: A Symposium on Writing Science Fiction and Science Fantasyby Reginald BretnorISBN 0064634574 (0-06-463457-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Creative Writer's Handbookby Philip K. Jason, Allan B. LefcowitzISBN 0131893718 (0-13-189371-8)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Creative Writer's Handbook: What to Write, How to Write It, Where to Sell Itby Isabelle Gibson ZieglerISBN 0064634213 (0-06-463421-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Creative Writing: For People Who Can't Not Writeby Kathryn LindskoogISBN 0310253217 (0-310-25321-7)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Creative Writing: For People Who Can't Not Write'Book summary:Crammed with crucial facts, ideas, and warnings never before brought together into clear focus, this guide is not only fun to read, but also work-boots practical. Not only inspiring, but pinch-penny accurate. Not only optimistic, but report-card candid. Not only kindly, but tattle-tale frank. It is an energizing tonic for writers' weary brain cells. Every writer is important. Creative Writing for People Who Can't Not Write is a book for every writer. Topics in this lively blend of advice, inspiration, and scholarly wit include: - the wonder of creativity - getting published, paid, and read - why writing should be impossible - how to avoid looking foolish in print - a sugar-coated history of the whimsical, word-rich English language - the nature of poetry - the sixteen writer-type temperaments - reflections from contemporary writers on their work - a first-ever collation of pages of advice from C.S. Lewis. Lewis once wrote to Lindskoog, 'If you understand me so well, you will understand other authors, too.' Writers who read Creative Writing for People Who Can't Not Write will agree with Lewis' assessment of Kathryn Lindskoog's insight into the writing life. And this book also passes Lindskoog's own test: 'A good writer is a graceful guest in a reader's brain.' [via]
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Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Centuryby Susan GubarISBN 0231115806 (0-231-11580-6)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays, 1952-1995by Allen Ginsberg, Bill MorganISBN 0060930810 (0-06-093081-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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E FictionsISBN 0155062050 (0-15-506205-0)
Softcover, Heinle
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End of Storyby Peter AbrahamsISBN 0061121347 (0-06-112134-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'End of Story'Book summary:Aspiring author Ivy Seidel accepts a part-time position teaching writing to a group of convicted criminals hoping the experience will add depth and darkness to her own work.
But in the haunting writings of charismatic inmate Vance Harrow she discovers a talent possibly greater than her own. And in the startling, disturbing stories Harrow has to tell, Ivy finds a dangerous new purposeand a terrifying temptation that lures her into an inescapable world of shadows.
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Finding Your Writer's Voiceby Dorothy Wall, Thaisa FrankISBN 0312151284 (0-312-15128-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Frost in Mayby Antonia WhiteISBN 0140162321 (0-14-016232-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspaceby Janet H. MurrayISBN 0262631873 (0-262-63187-3)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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How to Write a Damn Good Novel, IIby James N. FreyISBN 0312104782 (0-312-10478-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II'Book summary:"Damn good" fiction is dramatic fiction, Frey insists, whether it is by Hemingway or Grisham, Le Carre or Ludlum, Austen or Dickens. Despite their differences, these authors' works share common elements: strong narrative lines, fascinating characters, steadily building conflicts, and satisfying conclusions. Frey's How to Write a Damn Good Novel is one of the most widely used guides ever published for aspiring authors. Here, in How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II, Frey offers powerful advanced techniques to build suspense, create fresher, more interesting characters, and achieve greater reader sympathy, empathy, and identification.
How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II also warns against the pseudo-rules often inflicted upon writers, rules such as "The author must always be invisible" and "You must stick to a single viewpoint in a scene," which cramp the imagination and deaden the narrative. Frey focuses instead on promises that the author makes to the readerpromises about character, narrative voice, story type, and so on, which must be kept if the reader is to be satisfied. This book is rich, instructive, honest, and often tellingly funny about the way writers sometimes fail their readers and themselves. [via]
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An Introduction to Literature, Criticsm and Theoryby Andrew Bennett, Nicholas RoyleISBN 0130109142 (0-13-010914-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognitionby Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwenISBN 015601159X (0-15-601159-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition'Book summary:Describing Umberto Eco as a writer is like describing the platypus as an animal. What do readers expect when they see the author's name on a book jacket? It's a tricky question to answer, given his range and versatility: he has produced studies of semiotics, children's books, medieval history, essays on contemporary culture, and, of course, novels--most notably The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before. So first, a word of warning. Anyone familiar with Eco the novelist or essayist might well be dismayed by Kant and the Platypus, for this new book returns to his preoccupations of the 1960s and 1970s--to semiotics and cognitive semantics. As such, it can be a daunting volume (the initial chapter, for example, riffs on the numerous philosophical concepts of being). And second, a word of encouragement: this is a wonderful engagement with the issues of language itself. Even as he beckons the reader into one linguistic thicket after another, Eco always keeps a commonsensical perspective, using stories to explicate the knottiest concepts.
Why did Marco Polo describe the rhinoceros as a type of unicorn? Why couldn't 18th-century observers figure out how to classify the duck-billed platypus? Given a dictionary or encyclopedia definition of a mouse, how easy would it be to identify one if we had never seen one before? These are some of the examples that Eco uses to explore the ways in which we see and describe the world--the ways, that is, in which cultures develop taxonomies. If you want to know "why we can tell an elephant from an armadillo," or why mirrors do not in fact reverse images, this book will tell you. In fact, it will also tell you why you know what I am talking about when I say "this book." Got it? No? Then get it. --Burhan Tufail [via]
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The Key: How to Write Damn Good Fiction Using the Power of Mythby James N. FreyISBN 0312241976 (0-312-24197-6)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Living by Fictionby Annie DillardISBN 0060915447 (0-06-091544-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Making the Alphabet Dance: Recreational Wordplayby Ross EcklerISBN 0312155808 (0-312-15580-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making the Alphabet Dance: Recreational Wordplay'Book summary:This is the most mesmerizing book on wordplay to come along in years. Ross Eckler examines such eternal logological favorites as anagrams, palindromes, and word squares, as well as words that play in other ways. Here are words with all letters in alphabetical order, novels written without the letter "e," and dozens of ways to transform one word into another. Take "heathery," for example. How many times can you delete one letter and have a new word remaining? Or consider "add." What happens when you shift each letter one place down the alphabet? How about eight places? If you love words, this masterpiece is irresistible. [via]
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Master Class: Scenes from a Fiction Workshopby Paul WestISBN 0151005745 (0-15-100574-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Master Class: Scenes from a Fiction Workshop'Book summary:Paul West, prolific novelist and writer of renown, is also a beloved and famous writing teacher. In Master Class, West re-creates his last writing seminar, filled with wonderful conversation, deep insight into the creative spirit, and terrific tips for good writing.[via]
Fifteen students-eager, talented, some new, and some old friends- come together twice a week to talk about great works, to discuss each others' writing, and to open their minds and hearts to the joy, peril, and discipline of striving to write good literature.
West, who is dedicated to both great writing and to his students, has class members sleep with a page of Proust under their pillows. Then they begin-writing, talking, analyzing, and critiquing. Each class and each chapter of Master Class offers a heady mix of detailed advice and creative philosophy.
Only a few fortunate students were accepted into this seminar. Now readers and writers all over the world can sit with master teacher Paul West, learning not only what makes a great opening sentence, but also how to expand their minds and imaginations.More editions of Master Class: Scenes from a Fiction Workshop:
Monkey Businessby Sarah Albee, John MandersISBN 030745407X (0-307-45407-X)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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The Narnian: The Life And Imagination Of C. S. Lewisby Alan JacobsISBN 0060872691 (0-06-087269-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Narnian: The Life And Imagination of C. S. Lewis'Book summary:C. S. Lewis was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably the most influential Christian writer of his day. Yet among his poetry, literary history and criticism, novels, and Christian apologetics stands a unique, delightfully imaginative children's series called The Chronicles of Narnia, which has become an enduring classic. Alan Jacobs takes this imaginary world of Narnia that has captivated children and adults alike for years, and uses the themes and stories found within to explore the imaginative life of C. S. Lewis. Few things are more interesting to human beings than trying to figure out how another human being (especially a profoundly gifted one) works. Not just a conventional, straightforward biographer of Lewis, Jacobs instead seeks a more elusive quarry: an understanding of the way Lewis's experiences, both direct and literary, formed themselves into patterns--themes that then shaped his thought and writings, especially the stories of Narnia. It is in the Narnia stories that we see the most of Lewis, and this illuminating biography delivers a true picture of the life and imagination of the Narnian. [via]
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On Teaching and Writing Fictionby Wallace Stegner, Lynn StegnerISBN 0142001473 (0-14-200147-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Lifeby Amy TanISBN 0142004898 (0-14-200489-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Perrine's Story and Structureby Laurence PerrineISBN 0155037218 (0-15-503721-8)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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The Poet's Dictionary: A Handbook of Prosody and Poetic Devicesby William PackardISBN 0062720457 (0-06-272045-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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A Poet's Guide to Poetryby Mary KinzieISBN 0226437396 (0-226-43739-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Poet's Guide to Poetry'Book summary:A Poet's Guide to Poetry brings Mary Kinzie's expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwestern University to bear in a comprehensive reference work for any writer wishing to better understand poetry. Detailing the formal concepts of poetry and methods of poetic analysis, she shows how the craft of writing can guide the art of reading poems. Using examples from the major traditions of lyric and meditative poetry in English from the medieval period to the present, Kinzie considers the sounds and rhythms of poetry along with the ideas and thought-units within poems. Kinzie shares her own successful classroom tacticsencouraging readers to approach a poem as if it were provisional.[via]
The three parts of A Poet's Guide to Poetry lead the reader through a carefully planned introduction to the ways we understand poetry. The first section provides careful, step-by-step instruction to familiarize students with the formal elements of poems, from the most obvious feature through the most devious.
Part I presents the style, grammar, and rhetoric of poems with a wealth of examples from various literary periods.
Part II discusses the way the elements of a poem are controlled in time through a careful explanation and exploration of meter and rhythm. The "four freedoms" of free verse are also examined.
Part III closes the book with helpful practicum chapters on writing in form. Included here are writing exercises for beginning as well as advanced writers, a dictionary of poetic terms replete with poetry examples, and an annotated bibliography for further explanatory reading.
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The Portable Poetry Workshop: A Field Guide to Poetic Techniqueby Jack Elliott MyersISBN 0155060023 (0-15-506002-3)
Softcover, Heinle
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The Practical Writer: From Inspiration to Publicationby Therese Eiben, Mary GannonISBN 0142004006 (0-14-200400-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Practical Writer: From Inspiration to Publication'Book summary:Poets & Writers Magazine presents the one book that every writer needs on the journey from the writing studio to publication. An essential volume from an organization renowned for providing reliable advice, The Practical Writer is filled with valuable information that will help emerging writers make intelligent choices and professional decisions at every stage of their careers. Filled with the insights and expertise of authors and other publishing insiders, it covers a range of topics: revising a manuscript, choosing a title, applying for grants, conducting research, evaluating an agent, understanding contracts, working with an editor, finding a literary community, promoting a book, and much more. With The Practical Writer, writers will know how to make the most of every aspect of their journey. [via]
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The Practice of Writingby David LodgeISBN 0140261060 (0-14-026106-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Practice of Writing'Book summary:English author, literary critic, and Birmingham professor David Lodge has given us a thoughtful collection of essays on writing, serving as an end-of-century bookend for E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel. But given the particular century in which Lodge writes, he doesn't stop with prose but also considers stage and television work--he adapted Martin Chuzzlewit for the BBC-- giving the book its greatest strength. Lodge's range runs from academic musings to television scripts, a breadth worthy of any scribe here on the disparate, millennial cusp. [via]
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SELF-EDITING FOR FICTION WRITERS: How to Edit Yourself into Printby Renni Browne, Dave KingISBN 0062720465 (0-06-272046-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'SELF-EDITING FOR FICTION WRITERS: How to Edit Yourself into Print'Book summary:There's not much of the old-style editing going on at publishing houses today. Renni Browne, veteran of William Morrow and other publishers, founded the Editorial Department in 1980 to teach fiction writers the techniques professional editors (many of whom have gone independent) use to prepare a manuscript for publication. In this book, she and senior editor Dave King share their accumulated expertise in a series of brilliantly compact lessons. One page from their simply and markedly improved version of a scene from The Great Gatsby alone would make a compelling advertisement for their techniques. Very highly recommended. --MTB [via]
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The Shell Collectorby Anthony DoerrISBN 0142002968 (0-14-200296-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Simple & Directby Jacques BarzunISBN 0060937238 (0-06-093723-8)
Softcover, Quill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Simple & Direct'Book summary:Rare is the book that causes one to consider--ponder? appraise? examine? inspect? contemplate?--one's every word. Simple & Direct, a classic text on the craft of writing by the educator Jacques Barzun, does so--with style. His object, says Barzun, is "to resensitize the mind to words." Do not use a word unless you know both its meaning and its connotations, its "quality" and its "atmosphere," and the ways in which it joins with other words. Barzun is an exacting taskmaster, railing against abstractions, "fancy" wordings, contemporary slang (which "prey[s] upon the vocabulary rather than nourish[es] it"), misprints ("it is rudeness to let them appear"), and the like. He bemoans what he sees as "a fury at work in the people to make war on hyphens," and he loathes those new words, such as condominium, that have been "cobbled together out of shavings and leftovers."
Still, no stodgy codger he. Barzun merely asks that you "have a point and make it by means of the best word." If that means splitting an infinitive or substituting a "which" for a "that," so be it. Just be sure that the decision to do so is conscious and informed. Once you've found the right word, you can move on to writing sentences and then leaning them against one another until they form paragraphs. Only when you've gotten it all down, says Barzun, should you allow yourself the pleasure of revision. "Unlike the sculptor," he says, "the writer can start carving and enjoying himself only after he has dug the marble out of his own head." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writersby Jacques BarzunISBN 0226038688 (0-226-03868-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Stein on Writingby Sol SteinISBN 0312254210 (0-312-25421-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Stein on Writing : A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategiesby Sol SteinISBN 0312136080 (0-312-13608-0)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stein on Writing : A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies'Book summary:"The best reading experiences," says Sol Stein, "defy interruption." With Stein's assistance, you can grab your reader on page 1 and not let go until "The End." Stein--author of nine novels (including the bestselling The Magician) and editor to James Baldwin, W.H. Auden, and Lionel Trilling--offers "usable solutions" for any writing problem you may encounter. He is authoritative and commanding--neither cheerleader nor naysayer. Instead, he rails against mediocrity and demands that you expunge it from your work. Perhaps the concept of scrutinizing every modifier, every metaphor, every character trait sounds like drudgery. But with Stein's lively guidance, it is a pleasure. Stein recommends that you brew conflict in your prose by giving your characters different "scripts." He challenges you, in an exercise concerning voice, to write the sentence you want the world to remember you by. He uses an excerpt from E.L. Doctorow to demonstrate poorly written monologue and a series of Taster's Choice commercials as an example of dialogue that works. Stein's bottom line is that good writing must be suspenseful. Your job, says Stein, "is to give readers stress, strain, and pressure. The fact is that readers who hate those things in life love them in fiction." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Story and Structureby Laurence Perrine, Thomas R. ArpISBN 0155837885 (0-15-583788-5)
Softcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Surviving a Writer's Lifeby Suzanne LipsettISBN 0062506587 (0-06-250658-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Teach Yourself Writing Crime Fictionby Lesley Grant-AdamsonISBN 0071421300 (0-07-142130-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfictionby Suzanne Paola, Brenda MillerISBN 0071444947 (0-07-144494-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Three Genres: The Writing of Fiction/Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, and Dramaby Stephen MinotISBN 0132197383 (0-13-219738-3)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Truth & Beauty: A Friendshipby Ann PatchettISBN 0060572159 (0-06-057215-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Truth & Beauty: A Friendship'Book summary:What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when the person you promise to love and to honor for the rest of your life is not your lover, but your best friend? In Truth & Beauty, her frank and startlingly intimate first work of nonfiction, Ann Patchett shines a fresh, revealing light on the world of women's friendships and shows us what it means to stand together. Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work was. In her critically acclaimed and hugely successful memoir, Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, the years of chemotherapy and radiation, and then the endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn't Lucy's life or Ann's life, but the parts of their lives they shared. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long, cold winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards, to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this book shows us what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined. This is a tender, brutal book about loving a person we cannot save. It is about loyalty, and about being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest. [via]
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Understanding Fictionby Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0139366903 (0-13-936690-3)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writersby Anne Bernays, Pamela PainterISBN 0062720066 (0-06-272006-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988by R.K. NarayanISBN 0140107916 (0-14-010791-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Writer's Notebookby Howard JunkerISBN 0062586181 (0-06-258618-1)
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A Writer's Notebookby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0140186018 (0-14-018601-8)
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The Writer's Quotation Book: A Literary Companionby James CharltonISBN 0140058818 (0-14-005881-8)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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A Writer's Referenceby Diana HackerISBN 031202455X (0-312-02455-X)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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A Writer's Workbook : Daily Exercises for the Writing Lifeby Caroline Sharp, Elizabeth GilbertISBN 0312242727 (0-312-24272-7)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Writers Reference: Version 4.0 Updated With Mla's and Apa's 1999 Guidelinesby Diana HackerISBN 0312256957 (0-312-25695-7)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Writing About Literatureby Edgar V. RobertsISBN 0130978019 (0-13-097801-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Writing About Literature/Brief Edby Edgar V. RobertsISBN 0130814296 (0-13-081429-6)
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Writing Alone and With Othersby Pat Schneider, Peter ElbowISBN 019516573X (0-19-516573-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Writing on Both Sides of the Brain: Breakthrough Techniques for People Who Writeby Henriette Anne KlauserISBN 006254490X (0-06-254490-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Writing Poetryby Barbara DrakeISBN 015500154X (0-15-500154-X)
Softcover, Heinle
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Writing Science Fiction and Fantasyby S. Schmidt, Tina Lee, R. Strock, Gardner R. Dozois, S. WilliamsISBN 0312089260 (0-312-08926-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Writing Without Teachersby Peter ElbowISBN 0195120167 (0-19-512016-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The teacherless writing class is Elbow's other key to unlocking the writer within. Elbow prefers these groups to those with teachers, because a teacher, he says, "usually isn't in a position where he can be genuinely affected by your words." In a teacherless group, the other participants "give you better evidence of what is unclear in your writing." Elbow insists that members of a writing group disregard conventional theories of "good" and "bad" writing, urging instead that they react to one another's work in a more subjective manner. The ultimate goal, he says, is for the group process to help each writer improve his or her ability to decide "which parts of [his or her] own writing to keep and which to throw away." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Writing Your First Playby Roger A. HallISBN 024080290X (0-240-80290-X)
Softcover, Focal Pr
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