Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame
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| Author | Nancy Mitford |
| ISBN | 0689707045 |
This collection of essays started with Nancy Mitford's article “The English Aristocracy”, published in 1955 in the magazine Encounter. The expressions “U” (Upper Class) and “Non-U” (non-Upper Class) came to prominence in this article, which sold out the edition of the magazine immediately...
Manuscript Makeover: Revision Techniques No Fiction Writer Can Afford to Ignore
| Author | Elizabeth Lyon |
| ISBN | 0399533958 |
Professional editor and author Elizabeth Lyon offers aspiring novelists the guidance and instruction they need to write and edit well-crafted and compelling stories that will stand out from the competition and attract the attention of agents and publishers, including:
- Stand-out style...
| Author | Harriet Brown |
| ISBN | 0345500881 |
In our appearance-obsessed society, eating is about much more than hunger and sustenance. Food inspires pleasure and anxiety, shame and obsession. We are constantly judged on how we look, so we’ve come to judge ourselves (and others) on what and how we eat.
These evocative essays, from...
| Author | George Orwell |
| ISBN | 1567921337 |
George Orwell is a major figure in twentieth-century literature. The author of Down and Out in Paris and London, Nineteen Eighty-four, and Animal Farm, he published ten books and two collections of essays during his lifetime -- but in terms of actual words, produced much more than seems possible for...
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 0192836218 |
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.
As seen in these...
| Author | Daniel Barenboim |
| ISBN | 1400075157 |
These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues—which grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks—are an exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: Daniel Barenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist, and Edward W. Said, eminent literary...
| Author | Wallace Shawn |
| ISBN | 1608460029 |
“Full of what you might call conversation starters: tricky propositions about morality... politics, privilege, runaway nationalist fantasies, collective guilt, and art as a force for change (or not)...It’s a treat to hear him speak his curious mind.”—O Magazine
In these beautiful...
| Author | Carole Maso |
| ISBN | 1582430632 |
In this groundbreaking work of ecstatic criticism, Carole Maso shows why she has risen, over the past fifteen years, as one of the brightest stars in the literary firmament. Ever refusing to be marginalized or categorized by genre, Maso is an incisive, compassionate writer who deems herself daughter...
The Secret Miracle: The Novelist's Handbook
| Author | Daniel Alarcón |
| ISBN | 0805087141 |
The world's best contemporary writers—from Michael Chabon and Claire Messud to Jonathan Lethem and Amy Tan—engage in a wide-ranging, insightful, and oft- surprising roundtable discussion on the art of writing fiction
Drawing back the curtain on the mysterious process of writing...
Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World
| Author | James Ball |
| ISBN | 1785902148 |
2016 marked the dawn of the post-truth era. The year saw two shock election results, each of which has the potential to reshape the world: the UK's decision to leave the EU, and the elevation of Donald Trump to the office of U.S. President. The campaigns highlighted many of the same issues in their home...
Writing on Both Sides of the Brain: Breakthrough Techniques for People Who Write
| Author | Henriette Anne Klauser |
Henriette has such a beautiful heart, a fine intellect, and her writing style is conversational and easy. Even though I already know what she’s writing about in this book, I still love reading every word she writes simple because I love to hear her talk because she is just a school of life, and I learn...
| Author | Dorothy Allison |
| ISBN | 0979419816 |
The Writer's Notebook combines the best craft seminars from the Summer Writers Workshop's history with craft essays by some of Tin House's favorite authors and features a list of contributors that reads like a veritable who’s who of contemporary poets and prose writers. Jim Shepard, Aimee Bender,...
| Author | Ernest Hemingway |
| ISBN | 0684839059 |
s/t: Selected Articles & Dispatches of Four Decades
Spanning the years from 1920 to 1956, this priceless collection of pieces written by Hemingway ranges from articles for the "Toronto Star" and the Hearst newspapers to popular magazines such as "Esquire, Collier's" and "Look", and includes...
| Author | Brendan Gill |
| ISBN | 0306808102 |
For over sixty years Brendan Gill has been a contented inmate of the singular institution known as the New Yorker. This affectionate account of the magazine, long known as a home for congenital unemployables, is a celebration of its wards and attendants—William Shawn, Harold Ross's gentle and courtly...
1,000 Dollars and an Idea: Entrepreneur To Billionaire
| Author | Sam Wyly |
| ISBN | 1557048037 |
The rags-to-riches story of an amazing business wizard--from the Louisiana cotton fields to the worlds of computers, retailing, fast food, high finance, and green energy--life lessons from a man ahead of the pack and ahead of his time.
"My work is to create companies and build them," says the billionaire...
| Author | Martha Gellhorn |
| ISBN | 0871132125 |
First published in 1959, but now offered in a revised and expanded edition, The View from the Ground presents over six decades of Gellhorn's ruminations on political, civil, and social issues and crises, from a lynching in the American South in the 1930s through a recent visit to Cuba to see what is new...
| Author | Nelson Algren |
| ISBN | 1888363622 |
The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers.
"You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich," writes Nelson Algren...
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0786715359 |
From one of the world's most passionately engaged literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection to date of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, ranging from 1983 to 2005. Composed of autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book reviews, and introductory pieces written...
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
| Author | Harold Bloom |
| ISBN | 0791059294 |
Back in my undergraduate days I was lucky enough to hear Ray Bradbury speak in person. (He was a keynote speaker at a conference for college newspaper staffers). He was so funny and so inspirational that decades later I still have the notes I took during his speech and during the workshop the next day. This...
| Author | Louise Doughty |
| ISBN | 1847370705 |
This is such a very, very useful book - follow the exercises and you will make huge progress on your novel.
Aside from the exercises, here's a brief summary of the advice in each chapter:
week 1: Complete this sentence: The day after my eight birthday my father told me.. So I did. Didn't...
| Author | Lillian Ross |
| ISBN | 1501116002 |
From the inimitable veteran New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross—a stunning collection of Ross’s iconic New Yorker pieces.
A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1945, Lillian Ross is one of the few journalists who worked for both the magazine’s founding editor, Harold Ross, and its...
"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 invaluable conversations with the greatest writers...
| Author | Lynn Barber |
| ISBN | 1408837196 |
Lynn Barber, by her own admission, has always suffered from a compelling sense of nosiness. An exceptionally inquisitive child she constantly questioned everyone she knew about imitate details of their lives. This talent for nosiness, coupled with her unusual lack of the very English fear of social...
