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The Accidental Touristby Anne TylerISBN 0425092917 (0-425-09291-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Alphabet to Email : How Written English Evolved and Where It's Headedby Naomi S. BaronISBN 0415186862 (0-415-18686-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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Archer's Goonby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0425098885 (0-425-09888-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archer's Goon'Book summary:When the Goon turns up demanding "Archer's two thousand", life turns upside-down. As Howard desperately tries to get to the bottom of this demand, he discovers that the town is run by seven crazy wizards (not all of whom live in the present!) and someone is trying to take over the world. [via]
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Beyond Traditional Phonics: Research Discoveries and Reading Instructionby Margaret MoustafaISBN 0435072471 (0-435-07247-1)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Beyond Words: Picture Books for Older Readers and Writersby Susan Benedict, Lenore CarlisleISBN 043508710X (0-435-08710-X)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Book Commissioning and Acquisitionby Gill DaviesISBN 0415317894 (0-415-31789-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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Book History Readerby Alistair McCleery, David FinkelsteinISBN 0415359481 (0-415-35948-1)
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Coming to Know: Writing to Learn in the Intermediate Gradesby Nancie AtwellISBN 043508500X (0-435-08500-X)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Creative Writing: A Workbook With Readingsby Linda AndersonISBN 0415372437 (0-415-37243-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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Creativity: Theory, History, Practiceby Rob PopeISBN 0415349168 (0-415-34916-8)
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Developing Writing Skills in Chineseby Qian Kan, Boping Yuan, Yuan BopingISBN 0415215838 (0-415-21583-8)
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A Dictionary of Modern Critical Termsby Roger FowlerISBN 0415058848 (0-415-05884-8)
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Discover Your Own Literacyby Donald H. GravesISBN 0435084879 (0-435-08487-9)
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English Novel in History, 1950 to the Presentby Steven ConnorISBN 041507231X (0-415-07231-X)
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The Essayist at Work: Profiles of Creative Nonfiction Writersby Lee GutkindISBN 0435081519 (0-435-08151-9)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Essays into Literacy: Selected Papers and Some Afterthoughtsby Frank SmithISBN 0435082051 (0-435-08205-1)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Ethnography: Principles in Practiceby Martyn Hammersley, Paul AtkinsonISBN 0415086647 (0-415-08664-7)
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Everyday Letters for All Occasionsby Jack MaguireISBN 0425150194 (0-425-15019-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Frank Muir Book: An Irreverent Companion to Social Historyby Frank MuirISBN 0434481505 (0-434-48150-5)
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Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Rick GearyISBN 042512021X (0-425-12021-X)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Handbook of Scripts and Alphabetsby George L. CampbellISBN 0415137152 (0-415-13715-2)
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How We Write: Writing As Creative Designby Mike SharplesISBN 0415185874 (0-415-18587-4)
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An Introduction To Book Historyby Alistair McCleery, David FinkelsteinISBN 0415314437 (0-415-31443-7)
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Inventing English: The Imaginative Origins of Everyday Expressionsby Dale CoreyISBN 0425152286 (0-425-15228-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Jolly Postmanby Janet AhlbergISBN 0434925152 (0-434-92515-2)
Hardcover, Bentley Pub
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Just Teach Me, Mrs. K.: Talking, Reading, and Writing With Resistant Adolescent Learnersby Mary Mercer KrognessISBN 0435088157 (0-435-08815-7)
Softcover, Heinemann
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King Learby William ShakespeareISBN 0415081254 (0-415-08125-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novelby David LodgeISBN 0415290031 (0-415-29003-1)
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The Languages of the Worldby Kenneth KatznerISBN 0415250048 (0-415-25004-8)
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The Linguistics of Writing: Arguments Between Language and Literatureby Colin MacCabe, Nigel Fabb, Derek Attridge, Alan DurantISBN 0416018513 (0-416-01851-3)
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Literacy at the Crossroads: Crucial Talk About Reading, Writing, and Other Teaching Dilemmasby Regie RoutmanISBN 0435072102 (0-435-07210-2)
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Literacy Through the Book Artsby Paul JohnsonISBN 0435087665 (0-435-08766-5)
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Living Between the Linesby Lucy McCormick CalkinsISBN 0435085387 (0-435-08538-7)
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Magazine Editing: How to Develop and Manage a Successful Publicationby John MorrishISBN 0415303818 (0-415-30381-8)
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The Man in the Brown Suitby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425067866 (0-425-06786-6)
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Mastering Business Writing: The Executive's Guide to the Essentials of Good WritingISBN 0425128563 (0-425-12856-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Mindful of Others: Teaching Children to Teachby Suzanne BradyISBN 0435083562 (0-435-08356-2)
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Moon Journals: Writing, Art, and Inquiry Through Focused Nature Studyby Joni ChancerISBN 0435072218 (0-435-07221-8)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Novelists in Interviewby John HaffendenISBN 0416376002 (0-416-37600-2)
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On Storiesby Richard KearneyISBN 0415247985 (0-415-24798-5)
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Styleby Bryan A. GarnerISBN 0425175987 (0-425-17598-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style'Book summary:What's the singular of paparazzi? Is graffiti singular or plural? What about kudos? Should I say empathic or empathetic? Is it a couple of dozen or a couple dozen? What's the correct pronunciation of concierge? Or schism? Or flaccid?
In this book of crisp, precise, and often witty pronouncements on modern American English, Bryan Garner decisively answers these and thousands of other questions that bedevil those who care about the language. Garner draws on massive evidence to support his judgments, citing thousands of examples--good, bad, and ugly--from sources such as The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek.
No one can browse through the book without sharing the authors spirited awareness of how words work and his relish for exposing the affectations that bloat our language. And even if you don't have the time for browsing, but simply want a quick answer to an editorial riddle, this book is your best bet. [via]More editions of The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style:
The Oxford Essential Guide to Writingby Thomas S. KaneISBN 0425176401 (0-425-17640-1)
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Pale Fireby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0425093220 (0-425-09322-0)
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Poetry: The Basicsby Jeffrey WainwrightISBN 0415287642 (0-415-28764-2)
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Popularizing Anthropologyby Jeremy Macclancy, Chris McDonaughISBN 041513613X (0-415-13613-X)
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Power: A New Social Anaysisby Allyson Pollock, Samuel Brittan, Kirk WillisISBN 0415325072 (0-415-32507-2)
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Power: A New Social Analysisby Bertrand RussellISBN 0415094569 (0-415-09456-9)
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Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgementby I.A. Richards, John ConstableISBN 0415217350 (0-415-21735-0)
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Riverside Webster's II DictionaryISBN 0425154181 (0-425-15418-1)
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Riverside Webster's II Dictionaryby Berkley Publishing Staff, Mifflin HoughtonISBN 0425154890 (0-425-15489-0)
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Roget's II: The New ThesaurusISBN 0425156680 (0-425-15668-0)
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Science and Technical Writing: A Manual of Styleby Philip RubensISBN 0415925517 (0-415-92551-7)
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Scriptwriting for the Screenby Charlie MoritzISBN 041522912X (0-415-22912-X)
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Seeking Diversity: Language Arts With Adolescentsby Linda RiefISBN 0435085980 (0-435-08598-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seeking Diversity: Language Arts With Adolescents'Book summary:Seeking Diversity is the result of watching, listening to, and learning from adolescents. It is also about a teacher, a learner engaged in the process of coming to know herself as a reader and writer in her own classroom. It is a chronicle of apprenticeship, where the students do astonishing things as readers and writers because their teacher believes they can, because she expects them to, and because she is right there beside them-reading, writing, questioning, thinking, learning, and growing. Linda Rief takes the philosophies and ideas of Atwell, Romano, Graves, Murray, Calkins, and the Goodmans and makes them her own. She adapts them to her classroom, her students, her style, her constraints and invites other teachers to do the same- stretch the ideas, make them theirs, but above all, trust the students. Seeking Diversity is organized chronologically, following Linda and her students from September through June. Teachers will find especially helpful: organization techniques-materials, the room, and expectations ways of using life experiences and literature to immerse the students in meaningful writing and reading evaluation beliefs and techniques that focus on process as well as product and on self-evaluation over outside assessment portfolios from a range of students-what's in them, who chooses, and what they show us a new look at art as an integral part of students' literacy an appendix filled with handouts for both students and parents numerous lists of best-liked books for individualized reading, reading aloud, and reading together. [via]
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Sentence Structureby Nigel Fabb, Richard HudsonISBN 0415085691 (0-415-08569-1)
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A Shaping Joy: Studies in the Writer's Craftby Cleanth BrooksISBN 0416171508 (0-416-17150-8)
Hardcover, Methuen
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Short Guide to Traditional Grammarby BernardISBN 0424069504 (0-424-06950-4)
Softcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
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Siegfried Sassoon: The Making Of A War Poet, A Biography (1886-1918)by NISBN 041597383X (0-415-97383-X)
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Spel... Is a Four Letter Wordby J.Richard Gentry GentryISBN 0435084402 (0-435-08440-2)
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Student Writing: Access, Regulation, Desireby Theresa M. LillisISBN 0415228026 (0-415-22802-6)
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Sylvesterby Georgette HeyerISBN 0434328294 (0-434-32829-4)
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Talking Books: Children's Authors Talk About the Craft, Creativity and Process of Writingby James CarterISBN 0415194172 (0-415-19417-2)
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Brian MorrisISBN 0416475809 (0-416-47580-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:From the Royal Shakespeare Company -- a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's controversial comedy of the war between the sexes THIS EDITION INCLUDES: * An illuminating introduction to The Taming of the Shrew by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate * The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page * A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play * An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre * A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productions The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This unique edition presents a historical overview of The Taming of the Shrew in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with two leading directors and an actress - Gregory Doran, Phyllida Lloyd and Michelle Gomez -- so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death. Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare plays offer an accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century. [via]
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Teaching Kids to Spellby J. Richard GentryISBN 0435087606 (0-435-08760-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teaching Kids to Spell'Book summary:Teaching Kids to Spell fills the need for a book to help teachers working in an integrated language arts program provide systematic, personalized spelling instruction. The authors provide a much-needed bridge between traditional spelling instruction and whole language approaches, showing teachers (and parents, too) how spelling ability begins to emerge in young children's invented spellings, how it grows as children pass through predictable stages of spelling strategies, and how eventually every student can reach a standard of correct "expert" spelling.
The text includes wordlists, tips for teaching predictable patterns, and a variety of individual activities that prepare children to meet the phonetic, semantic, historical, and visual demands of spelling, plus strategies for implementing a spelling workshop in the elementary classroom.
Teachers, school administrators, and parents who want to understand the complex process of spelling will find this book a valuable resource.
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Telling the Tale : The African-American Fiction Writer's Guideby Angela BensonISBN 0425170543 (0-425-17054-3)
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The Tempestby William Shakespeare, Frank KermodeISBN 0416101909 (0-416-10190-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tempest'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, for many years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, and life with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation of Shakespeare's departure from the London stage. The Epilogue, spoken by Prospero, claims that "now my charms are all o'erthrown", appeared to reflect Shakespeare's own renunciation of his magical dramatic powers as he retired to Stratford. But The Tempest is far more than this, as recent commentators have pointed out. The dramatic action observes the classical unities of time, place and action, as Prospero uses his "rough magic" to lure his wicked usurping brother, Antonio, and King Alonso of Naples to his island retreat to torment them before engineering his return to Milan.
However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the "poisonous slave" Caliban. The creation of Caliban has particularly fascinated critics, who have noticed in his creation a colonial dimension to the play. In this respect Caliban can be seen as an American Indian or African slave, who articulates a particularly powerful strain of anti-colonial sentiment, telling Prospero that "this island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me". This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Cultureby Henry JenkinsISBN 0415905729 (0-415-90572-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture'Book summary:"Get a life" William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachers argues, fans already have a "life," a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests. Rejecting stereotypes of fans as cultural dupes, social misfits, and mindless consumers, Jenkins represents media fans as active producers and skilled manipulators of program meanings, as nomadic poachers constructing their own culture from borrowed materials, as an alternative social community defined through its cultural preferences and consumption practices.
Written from an insider's perspective and providing vivid examples from fan artifacts, Textual Poachers offers an ethnographic account of the media fan community, its interpretive strategies, its social institutions and cultural practices, and its troubled relationship to the mass media and consumer capitalism. Drawing on the work of Michel de Certau, Jenkins shows how fans of Star Trek, Blake's 7, The Professionals, Beauty and the Beast, Starsky and Hutch, Alien Nation, Twin Peaks, and other popular programs exploit these cultural materials as the basis for their stories, songs, videos, and social interatctions.
Addressing both academics and fans, Jenkins builds a powerful case for the richness of fan culture as a popular response to the mass media and as a challenge to the producers' attempts to regulate textual meanings. Textual Poachers guides readers through difficult questions about popular consumption, genre, gender, sexuality, and interpretation, documenting practices and processes which test and challenge basic assumptions of contemporary media theory.
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Their Word Is Law : Bestselling Lawyer-Novelists Talk about Their Craftby Stephen M. Murphy, Steve MartiniISBN 0425184781 (0-425-18478-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Timequakeby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0425164349 (0-425-16434-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Timequake'Book summary:Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It's a confident final trot 'round the track by one of the greats of postwar American literature. After 40 years of practice, Vonnegut's got his schtick down cold, and it's a pleasure--if a slightly tame one--to watch him go through his paces one more time.
Timequake's a mongrel; it is half novel, half memoir, the project of a decade's worth of writer's block, a book "that didn't want to be written." The premise is standard-issue Vonnegut: "...a timequake, a sudden glitch in the space-time continuum, made everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during past decades, for good or ill, a second time..." Simultaneously, the author's favorite tricks are on display--frequent visits with the shopworn science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a Hitchcockian appearance by the author at the book's end, and frequent authorial opining on love, war, and society. [via]
Transitions: From Literature to Literacyby Regie RoutmanISBN 0435084674 (0-435-08467-4)
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Travel Writing: The Self and the Worldby Casey BlantonISBN 0415938937 (0-415-93893-7)
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The Very Best Book of Baby Namesby Barbara Kay TurnerISBN 0425141306 (0-425-14130-6)
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Webster's II Dictionaryby Houghton MifflinISBN 0425204081 (0-425-20408-1)
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When Writers Readby Jane HansenISBN 0435084380 (0-435-08438-0)
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Why We Write: The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Changeby Jim DownsISBN 041597321X (0-415-97321-X)
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The Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and Languageby Deborah Cameron, Thomas A. MarkusISBN 0415143462 (0-415-14346-2)
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Workshop 1 by and for Teachers: Writing and Literatureby Nancie AtwellISBN 0435084925 (0-435-08492-5)
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Writing Short Storiesby Ailsa CoxISBN 0415303877 (0-415-30387-7)
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You Kan Red This!: Spelling and Punctuation for Whole Language Classrooms, K-6by Sandra WildeISBN 0435085956 (0-435-08595-6)
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