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Why I Write eBook Series

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  • Into the Weeds

    by Lydia Davis ...
    Series series Why I Write
    An illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis“Reporting from the slipstream of her reading life, [Davis] offers less a new way to think than perhaps an old one, pushing back against mechanization and the collapse of context by reframing reading in the most particular and human terms.†?—David L. Ulin, The AtlanticWhen asked ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised

    A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

    by Thomas C. Foster ...
    Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest—a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing and literary devices that enrich these works, including symbols, themes, and contexts—teaches you how to make your everyday reading experience richer and more rewarding.While books can be ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Writing Fiction

    A Guide to Narrative Craft

    by Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ned Stuckey-French ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    This updated edition of the classic, comprehensive guide to creative writing features new topics and writing prompts, contemporary examples, and more.A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction. This best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for decades it has helped ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dancing at the Edge of the World

    Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    "Ursula Le Guin at her best . . . This is an important collection of eloquent, elegant pieces by one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers." —Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post Book World"I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind," writes Ursula K. Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that ... Read more

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  • Essays One

    by Lydia Davis ...
    This selection of essays on writing and reading showcases the acclaimed author's "wise and brilliant . . . precise and playful" command of language ( The New York Times).Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her "a magician of self-consciousness," while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Crafting The Personal Essay

    A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction

    by Dinty W. Moore ...
    Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to "the pursuit of mental rabbits"-a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief that essays are stuffy and antiquated, the truth is that the personal essay is an ever-changing creative medium that provides an ideal vehicle for ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • What We See When We Read

    by Peter Mendelsund ...
    **A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading—how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader.“A playful, illustrated treatise on how words give rise to mental images.” —The New York Times**What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Write for Your Life

    by Anna Quindlen ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this clarion call to pick up a pen and find yourself from “one of our most astute chroniclers of modern life” (The New York Times Book Review), #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen shows us how anyone can write, and why everyone should.What really matters in life? What truly lasts in our hearts and minds? Where can we find community, history, humanity? In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Best American Essays 2020

    Edited by André Aciman ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name."An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, ... Read more

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  • To Show and to Tell

    The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

    by Phillip Lopate ...
    Series series An Essential Guide for Writers
    A long-awaited and illuminating book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate—celebrated essayist, professor of writing at Columbia University, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay.Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as “one of our best personal essayists” (Dallas Morning News).Here, combining more ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Making Shapely Fiction

    by Jerome Stern ...
    A deft analysis and appreciation of fiction—what makes it work and what can make it fail.Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page—whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the principles of momentum, tension, and immediacy. "Tension," ... Read more

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  • The Painted Word

    A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and Their Origins

    by Phil Cousineau ...
    To untangle the knot of interlocking meanings of these painted words, logophile and mythologist Phil Cousineau begins each fascinating word entry with his own brief definition. He then fills it in with a tint of etymology and a smattering of quotes that show how the word is used, ending with a list of companion words. The words themselves range from commonplace — like biscuit, a twice-baked cake ... Read more

    $9.99 USD