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For the Time Being
Annie Dillard
Book - $20.95
Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, searches for answers in her most profound narrative to ...
The Art of Fiction : Notes on Craft for Young Writers
John Gardner
Book - $20.95
John Gardner was famous for his generosity to young writers, and (this book) is his . . . gift to them. The Art of Fiction will fascinate anyone interested in how fiction gets put together. For the young writer, it will become a necessary handbook, a ...
The New New Journalism : Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft
Robert Boynton
Paperback - $23.95
Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched the New Journalism movement, Robert S. Boynton sits down with nineteen practitioners of what he calls the "New New Journalism to discuss their methods, writings and careers.
Three Uses of the Knife : On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
David Mamet
Paperback - $18.95
The purpose of theater, like magic, like religion ... is to inspire cleansing awe. With bracing directness and aphoristic authority, one of our greatest living playwrights addresses the questions: What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in a ...
In the Midst of Winter : Selections from the Literature of Mourning
Mary J. Moffat
Paperback - $23.95
This book is composed of selections from the 'Literature of Mourning'. From Catullus to Camus, Shakespeare to Virgina Woolf, from Lady Ise to Adrienne Rich, great writers express the inexpressible.
Le Mot Juste : A Dictionary of Classical and Foreign Words and Phrases
Kogan Page
Paperback - $21.95
Tired of making faux pas because you don't know the difference between sub rosa and sub voce? Then this lexicon is a bona fide desideratum.
Simply and concisely, it clarifies hundreds of words and phrases from Greek, Latin, French, German, Italia ...
True Notebooks : A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
Mark Salzman
Paperback - $24.95
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 as ...
Advice to Writers : A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, and Writerly Wisdom from a Dazzling Array of Literary Lights
Jon Winokur
Paperback - $26.95
In Advice to Writers, Jon Winokur, author of the bestselling The Portable Curmudgeon, gathers the counsel of more than four hundred celebrated authors in a treasury on the world of writing. Here are literary lions on everything from the passive voice ...