Anchor, September 2003. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments "A clear-eyed glance into the shadows where writers work and live." --The Washington Post Book World In this wise and irresistibly quotable book, one of the most intelligent writers now working in English addresses..... More
City Lights Publishers, June 2018. Trade Paperback. "Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."--Charles Bukowski In The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and..... More
Ecco, July 2016. Trade Paperback. Sharp and moving reflections and ruminations on the artistry and craft of writing from one of our most iconoclastic, riveting, and celebrated masters. Charles Bukowski's stories, poems, and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. In this collection of correspondence--letters to publishers, editors..... More
Vintage, October 2019. Trade Paperback. A call to arms for artists, in particular those who came from an immigrant background, like he did. - "To create today means to create dangerously. Every publication is a deliberate act, and that act makes us vulnerable to the passions of a century that..... More
Signet, March 2004. Mass Market Paperback. From the Bible, the Iliad, and the Republic to Civil Disobedience, Das Kapital, and Silent Spring, this revised and greatly expanded edition is a monument to the power of the printed word-an informative discussion of many of the most important works ever created... More
Europa Editions, March 2022. Hardcover. A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF 2022 (Air Mail) Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as "an..... More
Scribner, June 2020. Trade Paperback. Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King's critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, April 2003. Trade Paperback. "Incites us to reflect on fiction and philosophy, knowledge and truth, and brilliantly illustrates the art of the essay." -- The New Republic "Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel..... More
Vintage, February 2017. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Namesake delivers a powerful meditation on the process of learning to express herself in Italian--and the stunning journey of a writer seeking a new voice. - "The most evocative, unpretentious, astute account of a writing..... More
Princeton University Press, September 2023. Trade Paperback. Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translator Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well..... More
University of Michigan Press, January 1992. Trade Paperback. More
Harper Perennial, September 2015. Trade Paperback. From the celebrated Ursula K. Le Guin, "a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller" (Boston Globe), the revised and updated edition of her classic guide to the essentials of a writer's craft. Completely revised and rewritten to address modern challenges and..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2018. Trade Paperback. The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career..... More
New York Review Books, February 2000. Hardcover. I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition. But for the young V. S. Naipaul, there was a great distance between the wish and its fulfillment. To..... More
Mariner Books, April 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Books, September 2005. Trade Paperback. A selection of George Orwell's politically charged essays on language and writing that give context to his dystopian classic, 1984 Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves--and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war..... More
Picador, October 2006. Trade Paperback. A Picador Paperback Original The Paris Review is one of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century--and now of the twenty-first. Frequently weird, always wonderful.--Margaret Atwood How do great writers do it? From James M. Cain's hard-nosed observation that writing a novel..... More
Picador, October 2007. Trade Paperback. Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely crafted literature. From William Faulkner's determination that a great novel takes ninety-nine percent talent .... More
Picador, October 2008. Trade Paperback. I have all the copies of The Paris Review and like the interviews very much. They will make a good book when collected and that will be very good for the Review.--Ernest Hemingway Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us..... More
Vintage, August 2004. Trade Paperback. In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.'s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him..... More
Penguin Books, December 2002. Trade Paperback. Wallace Stegner founded the acclaimed Stanford Writing Program-a program whose alumni include such literary luminaries as Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, and Raymond Carver. Here Lynn Stegner brings together eight of Stegner's previously uncollected essays-including four never-before-published pieces -on writing fiction and teaching creative writing..... More
New Directions, October 2021. Trade Paperback. More
Picador, June 2003. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe-Borges, Bierce, Céline, Cortázar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet-he lays bare..... More
Seven Stories Press, October 2020. Trade Paperback. Kurt Vonnegut used to like to say, "Practicing an art form is a way to grow your soul." He would screw up his lips into a prune face after he said this because of how important he believed this idea to be. Pity..... More
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