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1,000 Tested Money-Making Markets for Writersby Walter G. OleksyISBN 0064634116 (0-06-463411-6)
Hardcover, Barness & Noble Books
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About the Authorby John ColapintoISBN 0060932171 (0-06-093217-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Allen Lane, King Penguin: A Biographyby J.E. MorpurgoISBN 0091396905 (0-09-139690-5)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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And Then He Kissed Herby Laura Lee GuhrkeISBN 006114360X (0-06-114360-X)
Softcover, Avon Books
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0075542714 (0-07-554271-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Autobiography of Mark Twainby Charles NeiderISBN 0060920254 (0-06-092025-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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[Read by Michael Anthony]
Mark Twain's daughter, Susy, wrote: ''Papa . . . doesn't like to go to church at all, why I never understood, until just now, he told us the other day that he couldn't bear to hear any one talk but himself, but that he could listen to himself talk for hours without getting tired, of course he said this in joke, but I've no dought [sic] it was founded on truth.'' -- from the book.
Here is one of the great autobiographies of the English language: exuberant, wonderfully contemporary in spirit, written by a man twice as large as life, who -- he said so himself -- had no trouble remembering everything that had ever happened to him, and a lot of things besides.
Nothing ever happened to Mark Twain in a small way. His adventures were invariably fraught with drama. Success and failure for him were equally spectacular. And so he roared down the years, feuding with publishers, being a sucker for inventors, always learning wisdom at the point of ruin and always relishing the absurd spectacle of humankind, whom he regarded with a blend of vitriol and affection. [via]More editions of Autobiography of Mark Twain:
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The Autobiography of Mark Twainby Mark Twain, Charles NeiderISBN 0060955422 (0-06-095542-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Mark Twain'Book summary:"Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams.... It has the marks of greatness in it--style, scope, imagination, laughter, tragedy."
--From the Introduction by Charles NeiderMark Twain was a figure larger than fife: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of heroism, adventure, tragedy, and comedy that reflected the changing America of the time, and he tells his own story--which includes sixteen pages of photos--with the same flair he brought to his fiction. Writing this autobiography on his deathbed, Twain vowed to he "free and frank and unembarrassed" in the recounting of his life and his experiences.
Twain was more than a match for the expanding America of riverboats, gold rushes, and the vast westward movement, which provided the material for his novels and which served to inspire this beloved and uniquely American autobiography.
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Autobiography, and Other Writingsby Benjamin Franklin, Kenneth SilvermanISBN 0140390529 (0-14-039052-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography, and Other Writings'Book summary:OTHER WRITINGS INCLUDE: A RECEIPT TO MAKE A NEW ENGLAND FUNERAL ELEGY; ADVICE TO A FRIEND ON CHOOSING A MISTRESS; THE SPEECH OF MISS POLLY BAKER; HOW TO SECURE HOUSES, &C. FROM LIGHTNING; THE KITE EXPERIMENT; THE WAY TO WEALTH; AN EDICT BY THE KING OF PRUSSIA; THE MORALS OF CHESS (EXCERPT); THE ELYSIAN FIELDS; INFORMATION TO THOSE WHO WOULD REMOVE TO AMERICA (EXCERPT); AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY; A MISCELLANY OF FRANKLIN'S OPINIONS. [via]
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Backstory: Inside The Business Of Newsby Ken AulettaISBN 0143034634 (0-14-303463-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bandboxby Thomas MallonISBN 0156029979 (0-15-602997-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Bell Jarby Sylvia Plath, Frances McCulloughISBN 0060573090 (0-06-057309-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bell Jar'Book summary:Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity. [via]
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A Big Storm Knocked It overby Laurie ColwinISBN 0060958987 (0-06-095898-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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A Boy at the Hogarth Pressby Richard KennedyISBN 0140048626 (0-14-004862-6)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Christian Writers Handbookby Margaret AndersonISBN 0060601957 (0-06-060195-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Computer Modern Typefacesby Donald Ervin KnuthISBN 0201134462 (0-201-13446-2)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Copy Preparation for Printingby John F. J. CabibiISBN 0070095248 (0-07-009524-8)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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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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Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstromby Leonard S. MarcusISBN 0064462358 (0-06-446235-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom'Book summary:Ursula Nordstrom, editorial director of Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973 and a formidable creative force in 20th-century children's book publishing, was responsible for polishing and shepherding countless dog-eared classics from Where the Wild Things Are to Charlotte's Web to Harriet the Spy. One of the most remarkable things about this extraordinary woman was her prolific correspondence with her cherished team of children's book authors and illustrators, all of whom she liked to call "Genius." Fortunately, many of her letters--warm, witty, temperamental, flattering, extravagant, self-deprecating, sympathetic, and always human--have been culled from HarperCollins's archives, gathered from many generous individuals, and arranged in chronological order by the noted biographer and critic Leonard S. Marcus. The result is Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom, complete with black-and-white photographs, extensive footnotes, a bibliography, and an index.
In this fascinating behind-the-scenes look at children's book publishing, letters to Shel Silverstein, Maurice Sendak, Laura Ingalls Wilder, John Steptoe, and Kay Thompson reveal a woman on an unorthodox quest to wrench children's literature from the stultifying clutches of sentimental illusion and false piety. Her dedication to creative, honest, original, non-condescending books for children changed the landscape of children's literature forever. As Marcus writes in his introduction, "...her letters have much to tell about the arts of writing, illustrating, and editing; the social history of the twentieth century; and the pivotal role that books, and a love of books, can play in children's lives. To read the letters is to receive a many-faceted education from a teacher of rare insight, good humor, and lively humanity. I am glad that readers will now be able to share in the experience." [via]
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Definitive Xsl-Foby G. Ken HolmanISBN 0131403745 (0-13-140374-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall Ptr
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The Dim Sum of All Thingsby Kim Wong KeltnerISBN 0060560754 (0-06-056075-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the Worldby Nicholas A. BasbanesISBN 0060593245 (0-06-059324-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World'Book summary:Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively consideration of writings that have "made things happen" in the world, works that have both nudged the course of history and fired the imagination of countless influential people.
In his fifth work to examine a specific aspect of book culture, Basbanes also asks what we can know about such figures as John Milton, Edward Gibbon, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Adams, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Henry James, Thomas Edison, Helen Keller -- even the notorious Marquis de Sade and Adolf Hitler -- by knowing what they have read. He shows how books that many of these people have consulted, in some cases annotated with their marginal notes, can offer tantalizing clues to the evolution of their character and the development of their thought.
Taking the concept one step further, Basbanes profiles some of the most articulate readers of our time -- David McCullough, Harold Bloom, Robert Fagles, Robert Coles, Helen Vendler, Elaine Pagels, Daniel Aaron, Christopher Ricks, Matthew Bruccoli, and Perri Klass among them -- who discuss such relevant concepts as literary canons, classic works in translation, the timelessness of poetry, the formation of sacred texts, and the power of literature to train physicians, nurture children, and rehabilitate criminal offenders.
"Basbanes has a deep and abiding passion for books -- a joyful addiction," Dan Smith wrote in the Toronto Star of Patience & Fortitude, characterizing his body of work as "part travelogue, part scholarship, and all story." The tradition continues with Every Book Its Reader.
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Far Cry from Kensingtonby Muriel SparkISBN 0094682909 (0-09-468290-9)
Hardcover, Constable
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Five Hundred Years of Printingby S. H. SteinbergISBN 0140203435 (0-14-020343-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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The Floating Bookby Michelle LovricISBN 0060578572 (0-06-057857-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Floating Book'Book summary:Venice, 1468. The beautiful yet heartless Sosia Simeon is making her mark on the city, driven by a dark compulsion to steal pleasure with men from all walks of life. Across the Grand Canal, Wendelin von Speyer has just arrived from Germany, bringing with him a cultural revolution: Gutenberg's movable type. Together with the young editor Bruno Uguccione and the seductive scribe Felice Feliciano, he starts the city's first printing press. Before long a love triangle develops between Sosia, Felice, and Bruno -- who has become entranced by the verse of Catullus, the Roman erotic poet. But a far greater scandal erupts when Wendelin tempts fate by publishing the poet -- and changes all of their lives forever.
Sosia, the heartless sensualist; Felice, a man who loves the crevices of the alphabet the way other men love the crevices of women; Lussieta, whose anguish gives the story its soulful heart: these and many other characters make The Floating Book an unforgettable experience for lovers of romance, history, and the printed word. [via]
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The Fortunes of Mitchell Kennerly, Bookmanby Matthew J. BruccoliISBN 0151326711 (0-15-132671-1)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Foucault's Pendulumby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 015603297X (0-15-603297-X)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Freelance Writing for Magazines and Newspapers: Breaking in Without Selling Outby Marcia YudkinISBN 0062732781 (0-06-273278-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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From Cover to Coverby Stefan SalterISBN 0133318273 (0-13-331827-3)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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From Reading, Writingby Anthony C. WinklerISBN 0155001469 (0-15-500146-9)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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The Handbook of Digital Publishingby Michael KleperISBN 0130175455 (0-13-017545-5)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, OxfordISBN 019212983X (0-19-212983-X)
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The History of the Siege of Lisbonby Jose Saramago, Giovanni PontieroISBN 0156006243 (0-15-600624-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Siege of Lisbon'Book summary:"If proofreaders were given their freedom and did not have their hands and feet tied by a mass of prohibitions more binding than the penal code, they would soon transform the face of the world, establish the kingdom of universal happiness, giving drink to the thirsty, food to the famished, peace to those who live in turmoil, joy to the sorrowful ... for they would be able to do all these things simply by changing the words ..." The power of the word is evident in Portuguese author José Saramago's novel, The History of the Siege of Lisbon. His protagonist, a proofreader named Raimundo Silva, adds a key word to a history of Portugal and thus rewrites not only the past, but also his own life.
Brilliantly translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero, The History of the Siege of Lisbon is a meditation on the differences between historiography, historical fiction, and "stories inserted into history." The novel is really two stories in one: the reimagined history of the 1147 siege of Lisbon that Raimundo feels compelled to write and the story of Raimundo's life, including his unexpected love affair with the editor, Maria Sara. In Saramago's masterful hands, the strands of this complex tale weave together to create a satisfying whole. [via]
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Home-Based Newsletter Publishing: A Success Guide for Entrepreneursby William J. BondISBN 007006556X (0-07-006556-X)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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How a Book Is Madeby AlikiISBN 0064460851 (0-06-446085-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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How to Write a Movie in 21 Days: The Inner Movie Methodby Viki KingISBN 0062730665 (0-06-273066-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Write a Movie in 21 Days: The Inner Movie Method'Book summary:No book can find your ideas for you, but this one provides a great service in helping you discover and develop a story, and to come up with the completed script. King helps you learn to think cinematically, in the language of the movies, and to keep asking the essential questions as they work: What's the story? Who is the story about? Do you care about the characters? Does anyone? King also tries to help you survive not just the structural pitfalls that can derail a script, but also the mental or emotional whirlpools that can prevent any artist from finishing a project. [via]
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John and Charles Wesley: Selected Prayers Hymns and Sermonsby John Wesley, Charles Wesley, Harpercollins Spiritual Classics, Frank Whaling, Peter J. GomesISBN 0060576510 (0-06-057651-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John and Charles Wesley: Selected Prayers Hymns and Sermons'Book summary:John and Charles Wesley led the Methodist revival that swept eighteenthcentury England and America and changed the face of Christianity forever. Their spirituality synthesized a unique blend of elements from the church fathers, Catholic mystics, and Protestant Reformers. This selection includes John's incisive writings on the spiritual life as well as the famous hymns of Charles, giving vibrant expression to the faith of the Wesleys.
"About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death." John Wesley
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Lapsing into a Commaby Bill WalshISBN 007138992X (0-07-138992-X)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Let's Hear It for the Girlsby Erica Bauermeister, Holly SmithISBN 0140257322 (0-14-025732-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Magazine in America, 1741-1990by John Tebbel, Mary Ellen ZuckermanISBN 0195051270 (0-19-505127-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Mass Media and Power in Modern Britainby Kevin Williams, Jenny Kitzinger, J. E. T. EldridgeISBN 0198781717 (0-19-878171-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionaryby Simon WinchesterISBN 019517500X (0-19-517500-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary'Book summary:Ask a logophile or crossword-puzzle addict what the holiest of holy reference works might be, and you're almost certain to receive a three-letter acronym in reply: the OED. Now in 20 volumes and still growing, the Oxford English Dictionary is an astounding monument, one that, like the Great Wall and the Roman Forum, seems to have been around forever. But, writes the always interesting explorer Simon Winchester in The Meaning of Everything, it took decades--and considerable sums of money--to bring it into being. The Scottish autodidact James Augustus Henry Murray, surrounded by a small army of underpaid and overworked helpers, laboured over it for more than half a century, seeing into print "a total of 227,779,589 letters and numbers, occupying fully 178 miles of type" that brought the elusive histories of words such as walrus (courtesy of J. R. R. Tolkien) and cow ("the female of any bovine animal," courtesy of Murray himself) into sharp relief. The making of the great dictionary over the years and decades seems an unlikely topic for a sometimes romantic, sometimes suspenseful tale, but Winchester delivers just that. Those who cherish words will find it a constant pleasure. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Memoirs of a Dissident Publisherby Henry RegneryISBN 0151737525 (0-15-173752-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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The Metafont Bookby Donald E. KnuthISBN 0201134446 (0-201-13444-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metafont Book'Book summary:METAFONT, created by author Donald E. Knuth, is a computer language that allows you to produce professional quality typefaces using mathematical type design. "The METAFONTbook," a user's guide and reference manual, enables readers with only minimal computer science or word processing experience to master the basic as well as the more advanced areas of METAFONT programming.
Readers will learn how to write a program for each letter or symbol of a typeface. Using METAFONT, it is possible to customize a type design that already exists, or even to create an entire alphabet from scratch. It is particularly easy to create logos or special symbols. Advanced users will enjoy the freedom and artistry that METAFONT allows in creating original typefaces.
Knuth's familiar wit, and illustrations specially drawn by Duane Bibby, add a light touch to an unusually readable software manual. [via]
Metafont: The Programby Donald Ervin KnuthISBN 0201134381 (0-201-13438-1)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style and Usageby Andrea SutcliffeISBN 0062700642 (0-06-270064-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style and Usage'Book summary:The only up-to-date guide that addresses everyone who writes, from books and magazine features to newsletters, business reports, technical papers and brochures -- with information on how to use computers in every stage of publication. [via]
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The Non-Designer's Scan and Print Bookby Robin C. Williams, Sandee CohenISBN 0201353946 (0-201-35394-6)
Softcover, Peachpit Press
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Odd Womenby George GissingISBN 0140433791 (0-14-043379-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Odd Womenby Patricia Ingham, George GissingISBN 019283312X (0-19-283312-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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On Becoming a Novelistby John GardnerISBN 0060911263 (0-06-091126-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Becoming a Novelist'Book summary:Picture the poor, young, serious-fiction writer. He toils alone at a pace not so different from that of Lincoln Tunnel traffic at rush hour in New York. His spouse has a "real" job, or perhaps he has a trust fund. His college friends are cashing in on their dot-coms and wondering if he's ever going to join the real world. He is not hell-bent on publication; he is trying to write "serious, honest fiction, the kind of novel that readers will find they enjoy reading more than once, the kind of fiction likely to survive." He's likely to have no idea whether he's succeeding. Nobody understands him.
Well, almost nobody. John Gardner understands him. Gardner's sympathetic On Becoming a Novelist is the novelist's ultimate comfort food--better than macaroni and cheese, better than chocolate. Gardner, a fiction writer himself (Grendel), knows in his bones the desperate questioning of a writer who's not sure he's up to the task. He recognizes the validation that comes with being published, just as he believes that "for a true novel there is generally no substitute for slow, slow baking." Gardner also has strong feelings about what kinds of workshops help (and whom they help), and what kinds hinder. But a full half of Gardner's book is devoted to an exploration of the writer's nature. The storyteller's intelligence, he says, "is composed of several qualities, most of which, in normal people, are signs of either immaturity or incivility." In addition, a writer needs "verbal sensitivity, accuracy of eye," and "an almost demonic compulsiveness." But wait--there's more. A writer needs to be driven, and to be driven, he says insightfully, "a psychological wound is helpful." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editorsby R. M. RitterISBN 0198662394 (0-19-866239-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Guide to Styleby Horace Hart, R. M. Ritter, Oxford University PressISBN 0198691750 (0-19-869175-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Guide to Style'Book summary:This immensely detailed and eclectic second edition of The Oxford Guide to Style is a descendant of Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers, first published in 1893. Inevitably the strict tone now nods a little more than it used to towards description of a changing language and has shifted slightly away from the unadulterated prescription of rights and wrongs. Thus, it is now acceptable to be addressed as Mrs Susan Elkin (not Mrs--husband's forename--Elkin) even if you're not a widow or a divorcee. You may also use contractions such as "isn't" even in quite formal writing and omit the full stops in--for instance--OBE.
Intended primarily for use by anyone who is preparing a book for a publisher--especially but not necessarily OUP--the Guide has 16 sections ranging from Languages and Specialist subjects to Indexing and preparation of copy and proofs. Anyone who works with, or is fond of, words would find it useful and interesting. At the same time the Guide doubles as a rather good general reference book. Where else could you find in a single volume an American-English mini dictionary, chemical symbols, Greek letters, standard abbreviations for names of publications--and a commendably clear account of the vexed question of whether or not, and when, you should capitalise words derived from proper nouns such as "Hellenic", "pasteurise" or "Dickensian"? And if you want to play Call My Bluff there's some wonderfully esoteric vocabulary here. Consider colophon which is "a publisher's emblem, device or imprint". And did you know that ^ is a caret? --Susan Elkin [via]
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Pagemaker 6.5 Plus for Windowsby Ted AlspachISBN 0201354608 (0-201-35460-8)
Softcover, Peachpit Press
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The Penguin New Literary History of Australiaby Bruce Bennett, Laurie HergenhanISBN 0140075143 (0-14-007514-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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The Penguin Concise Dictionary of Computingby Dick PountainISBN 0140514368 (0-14-051436-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Concise Dictionary of Computing'Book summary:This is a compact but up-to-date guide to the world of computers and PCs. It explains computing concepts and also offers definitions of jargon, abbreviations and the language of particular software packages. It is designed to be accessible to anyone who owns a PC or Mac, but should also help programmers and software engineers. [via]
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Perspectives on Electronic Publishing: Standards, Solutions, and Moreby Sanford ResslerISBN 0132874911 (0-13-287491-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Practical Writer: From Inspiration to Publicationby Therese Eiben, Mary GannonISBN 0142004006 (0-14-200400-6)
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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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The Professor and the Madmanby Simon WinchesterISBN 0061030228 (0-06-103022-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Professor and the Madman'Book summary:The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, 70 years in the making, was an intellectually heroic feat with a twist worthy of the greatest mystery fiction: one of its most valuable contributors was a criminally insane American physician, locked up in an English asylum for murder. British stage actor Simon Jones leads us through this uncommon meeting of minds (the other belonging to self-educated dictionary editor James Murray) at full gallop. Ultimately, it's hard to say which is more remarkable: the facts of this amazingly well-researched story, or the sound of author Simon Winchester's erudite prose. Jones's reading smoothly transports listeners to the 19th century, reminding us why so many brilliant people obsessively set out to catalogue the English language. This unabridged version contains an interview between Winchester and John Simpson, editor of the Oxford dictionary. (Running time: 6.5 hours, 6 cassettes) --Lou Schuler [via]
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Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionaryby Simon WinchesterISBN 0060839783 (0-06-083978-3)
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Put It in Writing: Learn How to Write Clearly, Quickly, and Persuasivelyby Albert JosephISBN 0070393087 (0-07-039308-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Pyromarketing: The Four-step Strategy To Ignite Customer Evangelists And Keep Them For Lifeby Greg StielstraISBN 0060776706 (0-06-077670-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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SELF-EDITING FOR FICTION WRITERS: How to Edit Yourself into Printby Renni Browne, Dave King, George BoothISBN 0060545690 (0-06-054569-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Selling Hitlerby Robert HarrisISBN 0140099484 (0-14-009948-4)
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Sgml: An Author's Guide to the Standard Generalized Markup Languageby Martin BryanISBN 0201175355 (0-201-17535-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Sgml Handbookby Charles F. GoldfarbISBN 0198537379 (0-19-853737-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Sgml: The Billion Dollar Secretby Chet EnsignISBN 0132267055 (0-13-226705-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall Ptr
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The Shadow of the Windby Lucia Graves, Carlos Ruiz ZafonISBN 0143034901 (0-14-303490-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Style Manual 2000ISBN 0160500834 (0-16-050083-4)
Hardcover, Bernan Assoc
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionaryby Simon WinchesterISBN 0140271287 (0-14-027128-7)
Softcover, Penguin
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Tex: The Programby Donald E. KnuthISBN 0201134373 (0-201-13437-3)
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Tools of the Writer's Trade: Writers Tell All About the Equipment and Services They Find the Bestby Dodi SchultzISBN 0062720031 (0-06-272003-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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United States Government Printing Office Style Manual: 2000by U.S. Government Printing OfficeISBN 0160500826 (0-16-050082-6)
Softcover, United States Government Printing
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The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730by Paula McDowellISBN 0198184492 (0-19-818449-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Writer's Legal Companionby Brad Bunnin, Peter BerenISBN 0201144093 (0-201-14409-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Writing Lifeby Annie DillardISBN 0060919884 (0-06-091988-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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This all makes The Writing Life seem a dense, tough read, but that is not the case at all. Dillard is, after all, human, just like the rest of us. During one particularly frantic moment, four cups of coffee and not much writing down, Dillard comes to a realization: "Many fine people were out there living, people whose consciences permitted them to sleep at night despite their not having written a decent sentence that day, or ever." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Writing to Learnby William K. ZinsserISBN 0060473983 (0-06-047398-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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