Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, and Moments of Desire
8 best books like Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, and Moments of Desire (Carole Maso): On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Nox, The Robber Bride, Mauve Desert, I Am Not Jackson Pollock: Stories, Men in the Off Hours, Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life, From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
| Author | Ocean Vuong |
| ISBN | 0525562028 |
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's...
| Author | Anne Carson |
| ISBN | 0811218708 |
Nox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and created after the death of her brother. The poem describes coming to terms with his loss through the lens of her translation of Poem 101 by Catullus “for his brother who died in the Troad.” Nox is a work of poetry,...
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0385491034 |
Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic...
| Author | Nicole Brossard |
| ISBN | 1552451720 |
First published in 1987, Nicole Brossard's classic novel returns to Coach House in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, Mauve Desert is a must-read for readers and writers alike.
This is both a single novel and three separate novels in one. In the first, Mauve Desert,...
| Author | John Haskell |
| ISBN | 0312421869 |
A bewitching collection of short fiction--haunting and hypnotic meditations on art, movies, literature, and life. In "Dream of a Clean Slate," Jackson Pollock the man struggles with the separation he feels from Jackson Pollock the artist; "The Judgement of Psycho," probes the sexual dynamic of...
| Author | Anne Carson |
| ISBN | 0375707565 |
Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to endure.
In Men in the...
| Author | Bonnie Friedman |
| ISBN | 0060922001 |
“In the spirit of Annie Dillard's The Writing Life, Friedman...gives heartfelt counsel to those who need to be coaxed into the creative process."—Washington Post
An indispensable guide for writers that explores the emotional side of writing and offers insightful advice on overcoming...
| Author | Robert Olen Butler |
| ISBN | 0802142575 |
Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University -- his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual, and tells writers how to achieve the dreamspace...
