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Inventing the Truth : The Art and Craft of Memoir
William Knowlton Zinsser
Book - $20.95
In this perfect companion for anyone beguiled by memoirs or embarking on writing one, nine distinguished authors -- Russell Baker, Jill Ker Conway, Annie Dillard, Ian Frazier, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alfred Kazin, Frank McCourt, Toni Morrison, and Ei ...
Spoken Here : Travels Among Threatened Languages
Mark Abley
Paperback - $23.95
In Spoken Here, Mark Abley takes us on a world tour from the Arctic Circle to Oklahoma to Australia in a fervent quest to document some of the world's most endangered languages. His mission is urgent: Of the six thousand languages spoken in the world ...
The Playful Way to Serious Writing : An Anything-Can-Happen Workbook to Inspire and Delight
Roberta Allen
Paperback - $23.95
Drawing on extensive experience in teaching creative writing and a lifetime of free artistic expression, Roberta Allen, novelist, short story writer, and author of "Fast Fiction, " has created a unique book of writing exercises packed with hundreds o ...
The Call of Stories : Teaching and the Moral Imagination
Robert Coles
Paperback - $23.95
'In this persuasive book, Robert Coles makes clear his profound belief in the 'call of stories' and their usefulness, their moral support.' --Helen Bevington, 'New York Times Book Review'
How to Talk American : A Guide to Our Native Tongues
Jim Crotty
Paperback - $24.95
Based on the popular "How to Talk" feature in the alternative travel magazine "Monk", this savvy and often hilarious, region-by-region guide to the way Americans talk also provides a dead-on (and sometimes too strange) indication of how we think, how ...
The Midnight Disease : The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
Alice W. Flaherty
Paperback - $24.95
Neurologist Flaherty explores the drive to write, what sparks it, and what extinguishes it. She offers a brave and compelling account of the role of emotion and the ways in which neurological and mood disorders can lead to meager--or prodigious--crea ...
Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular : An Informal Textbook
Rust Hills
Paperback - $21.95
Now a classic in the field, this practical guide to writing explains the essential techniques from character and plot to flashback and foreshadowing. A resource book for both beginning and seasoned writers.
The Essentials of MLA Style : A Guide to Documentation for Writers of Research Papers with an Appendix on APA Style
Joseph F. Trimmer
Paperback - $18.95
In easy-to-use outline form, this little book is a handy distillation of the best-selling MLA Handbook, with all the information a student needs to format a typescript, list sources at the end of the paper, cite sources in the paper's text, and avoid ...