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  • The Girl with the Black Lipstick

    de Mary Biddinger ...
    Against the backdrop of a boozy, restless late-90s Chicago, creative writing graduate student Mary Van Pelt and her eccentric roommate navigate the collision between party life, domestic harmony, and academic ambition in The Girl with the Black Lipstick. Mary Biddinger's novella in linked flash stories conjures outrageous fashion and the oddest of odd jobs, sparing no detail when immersing readers ... Leer más

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  • The Monkey and the Wrench

    Essays into Contemporary Poetics

    de Mary Biddinger ...
    The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics takes a snapshot of a moving target: the ever-shifting conversation about today's poetry. The ten essays in this collection offer reflections and insights, practical advice for craft matters, and provocative points of departure for those who read and write poetry. This series seeks to further the discussion of poetics in America and ... Leer más

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  • How Literature Works

    50 Key Concepts

    de John Sutherland ...
    How Literature Works is an indispensable book for any reader seeking a greater appreciation of their favorite novel, poem, or play. It offers a lively and straightforward guide to literary thinking. With a series of compact essays, the renowned literary critic John Sutherland--widely admired for his wit and clear reasoning--strips away the obscurity and pretension of literary study. His book ... Leer más

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  • About Writing

    7 Essays, 4 Letters, 5 Interviews

    de Samuel R. Delany ...
    From the four-time Nebula Award–winning novelist and literary critic, essential reading for the creative writer.Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both ... Leer más

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  • The Sound on the Page

    Great Writers Talk about Style and Voice in Writing

    de Ben Yagoda ...
    The acclaimed author examines the importance of a writer's voice—including interviews with Susan Orlean, Michel Chabon, Junot Díaz and others.In writing, style matters. Our favorite writers often entertain, move, and inspire us less by what they say than by how they say it. In The Sound on the Page, acclaimed author, teacher, and critic Ben Yagoda offers practical and incisive help for writers on ... Leer más

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  • Beautiful & Pointless

    A Guide to Modern Poetry

    de David Orr ...
    "David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr's a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom PerrottaAward-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist ... Leer más

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  • Don't Read Poetry

    A Book About How to Read Poems

    de Stephanie Burt ...
    “At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetryIn Don’t Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another—and how ... Leer más

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Critical Reading

    de Amy Wall, Regina Wall ...
    The essential guide to looking at literature with your own two eyes.What students know about Shakespeare, Orwell, Dickens, and Twain is primarily what their instructors tell them. Here’s a book that teaches the students how to move on to the next level—evaluate and read critically on their own, trust their own opinions, develop original ideas, analyze characters, and find a deeper appreciation for ... Leer más

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  • Living by Fiction

    de Annie Dillard ...
    "Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically--even fraudulently--essays to 'live the life of the mind' should read this book. It's elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, and like these two items, it's over much too soon." — Los Angeles TimesPulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's classic work of literary criticismLiving by Fiction is written for—and dedicated to ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Way of the Writer

    Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling

    de Charles Johnson ...
    From Charles Johnson—a National Book Award winner, Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, and one of America’s preeminent scholars on literature and race—comes an instructive, inspiring guide to the craft and art of writing.An award-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist, screenwriter, professor, and cartoonist, Charles Johnson has devoted his life to creative pursuit. His 1990 National ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Jewel-Hinged Jaw

    Notes on the Language of Science Fiction

    de Samuel R. Delany ...
    From the four-time Nebula Award–winning author, an indispensable work of science fiction criticism, revised and expanded.Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print and hard to find. The impact of its demonstration that science fiction was a special language, rather than just gadgets and green-skinned aliens, began reverberations still felt in ... Leer más

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  • Sympathy for the Traitor

    A Translation Manifesto

    de Mark Polizzotti ...
    An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty—summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment. In this nuanced and ... Leer más

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