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  • The Outlook for Earthlings

    by Joan Frank ...
    A lifetime of friendship, tested by time and circumstance. Melanie Taper, timid and rule-bound, finds an unlikely counterpart in Scarlet Rand, who is willful and abrasive. Their friendship, begun in high school and rekindled in midlife, becomes a sanctuary, yet each woman secretly judges the other's choices.As they navigate life's challenges, including illness and loss, their bond faces its ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Because You Have To

    A Writing Life

    by Joan Frank ...
    Part memoir, part handbook, part survey of the contemporary literary scene, Joan Frank's Because You Have To: A Writing Life is a collection of essays that, taken together, provide a walking tour of the writing life. Frank's aim is to form a coherent vision, one that may provide some communion about realities of the writer's vocation that have struck her as rarely revealed.Frank offers what she ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ploughshares Solos Omnibus Volume 4

    by Joan Frank, Ted Kehoe, Alexandra Marshall, Bill Roorbach, Douglas Trevor, Andria Nacina Cole, Federico Falco, Sarah Viren, Robert Boswell, Patricia Buddenhagen, Ladette Randolph ...
    Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the acclaimed Ploughshares Solos digital series, create this fourth annual print collection.Visit a small island off the coast of Maine where the reappearance of an old friend might just push a painter suffering from artist’s block over the edge. Meet a newly divorced lecturer of critical theory who, in an effort to spice up his life, gets more ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Biting the Moon

    by Joan Frank ...
    Series series Ploughshares Solos
    It's been years since the woman in "Biting the Moon" has seen her former lover Felix, a famous, Oscar-winning composer. But upon hearing the news of his sudden death, she mourns his loss by revisiting moments of their former life. Jumping in time from the pair’s first encounter at an artists’ colony to their rendezvous in cities across the US, the path the narrator takes toward acceptance is much ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Late Work

    A Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and What I Was Reading

    by Joan Frank ...
    Curious, ruminative, and wry, this literary autobiography tours what Rachel Kushner called “the strange remove that is the life of the writer.” Frank’s essays cover a vast spectrum—from handling dismissive advice, facing the dilemma of thwarted ambition, and copying the generosity that inspires us, to the miraculous catharsis of letter-writing and some of the books that pull us through. Useful for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Where You're All Going

    by Joan Frank ...
    Series series Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction
    Buzzfeed News,"15 Small Press Books To Kick Off Your 2020 Reading Season"The Millions, “February Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated”"Death looms in these four sparkling novellas—thus the book’s sly title—but until then there’s the wonder of life. Frank’s subjects include fascinating friendships and complicated marriages, awful parties and odd enthusiasm. Bonus: song mentions that add up to a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Miss Kansas City

    by Joan Frank ...
    Series series Michigan Literary Fiction Awards
    Miss Kansas City is the story of an improbable friendship, set in the tumultuous mid-80s dotcom California, where youthful greed and blinkered innocence arrive intertwined.Friendless and reclusive, Alex Blue commutes two hours each way to a job that serves mainly as a place to bide time, until one day she meets the wealthy, worldly—and married—owner of a high-concept Bay Area lifestyle company. ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Try to Get Lost

    Essays on Travel and Place

    by Joan Frank ...
    Series series River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize Series
    Through the author’s travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media’s depictions of an idea of home, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word “hotel,” and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground. Frank ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

    by Roy Peter Clark ...
    A special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark's bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools.Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America's most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of fifty short essays on different aspects of writing. In the past decade, Writing Tools has become a classic ... Read more

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  • The Hero of This Book

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    by Elizabeth McCracken ...
    Named a Top Ten Best Book of the Year by Time and PeopleNamed a Best Book of the Year by: Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * New Yorker * Chicago Public Library * NPR * Oprah Daily * Philadelphia EnquirerA taut, groundbreaking, and highly acclaimed novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, about a writer’s relationship with her larger-than-life mother—a... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Art of Memoir

    by Mary Karr ...
    Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning teaching prizes at Syracuse. (The writing program there produced such acclaimed authors as Cheryl Strayed ... Read more

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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 Strategies

    by Sol Stein ...
    Your future as a writer is in your hands. Whether you are a newcomer or an accomplished professional, a novelist, story writer, or a writer of nonfiction, you will find this book a wealth of immediately useful guidance not available anywhere else. As Sol Stein, renowned editor, author, and instructor, explains, "This is not a book of theory. It is a book of useable solutions-- how to fix writing ... Read more

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