Naked, Drunk and Writing
10 best books like Naked, Drunk and Writing (Adair Lara): Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, The Liars' Club, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Golden Cage, The Tender Bar, The Art of Memoir, Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend, Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence, Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir, Maggie Terry
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
| Author | Anne Lamott |
| ISBN | 0385480016 |
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and...
| Author | Mary Karr |
| ISBN | 0143035746 |
When it was published in 1995, Mary Karr's The Liars Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, as well as bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr's comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger's—a...
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1590303164 |
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice--"it...
| Author | Camilla Läckberg |
| ISBN | 3471351736 |
Was machst du, wenn dir alles genommen wird?
Faye und Jack sind das absolute Traumpaar. Sie haben das erfolgreichste Unternehmen Stockholms aufgebaut, wohnen in einem luxuriösen Apartment und sind umgeben von den Reichen und Schönen. Die gemeinsame Tochter Julienne ist die Krönung...
| Author | J.R. Moehringer |
| ISBN | 0786888768 |
In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs - a classic American story of self-invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it's also a moving portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and an unforgettable depiction of how men remain, at heart, lost boys.
J.R....
| Author | Mary Karr |
| ISBN | 0062223062 |
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.
For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning...
Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend
| Author | James S. Hirsch |
| ISBN | 1416547908 |
A strong and well-constructed biography of one of the first black men integrated into the majors in early 1950s America, and more importantly to the man himself, one of the best players and nicest guys ever to play the game. Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend encompasses a great deal of this monumental...
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
| Author | Lisa Cron |
| ISBN | 1607742454 |
This guide reveals how writers can utilize cognitive storytelling strategies to craft stories that ignite readers’ brains and captivate them through each plot element.
Imagine knowing what the brain craves from every tale it encounters, what fuels the success of any great story,...
In the tradition of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares inspiration and practical advice for writing a memoir.
Writing memoir is a deeply personal, and consequential, undertaking. As the acclaimed author of five memoirs spanning significant...
| Author | Sarah Schulman |
| ISBN | 1936932393 |
Hey, a new category of fiction for me: the NFM. Not quite a DNF, it's a Not For Me, a quit before I waste any more time. I just can't like it. About a third into it I realized that it is essentially a character study of an addict, Maggie, and at page 50, I'm not even sure how complex she is. It could be that being an...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
| Author | Amaryllis Fox |
| ISBN | 0525654976 |
Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter
Amaryllis Fox was in her last year as an undergraduate at Oxford...
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN | 1930464061 |
In this poignant and humorous work, Virginia Woolf observes that though illness is part of every human being’s experience, it has never been the subject of literature—like the more acceptable subjects of war and love. We cannot quote Shakespeare to describe a headache. We must, Woolf says, invent...
| Author | Julia Navarro |
| ISBN | 8401337550 |
Una periodista recibe una propuesta para investigar la azarosa vida de su bisabuela, una mujer de la que sólo se sabe que huyó de España abandonando a su marido y a su hijo poco antes de que estallara la Guerra Civil. Para rescatarla del olvido deberá reconstruir su historia desde los cimientos, siguiendo...
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«La música es la mejor compañera de viaje que hubiera podido soñar. Una compañera que nunca ha dejado de enseñarme algo nuevo cada día. He llegado hasta aquí gracias a ella y siguiendo siempre el dictado del corazón. Muchas veces me he equivocado. Muchas. Muchas veces no he logrado seguir adelante....
Dance teacher Wil Tango, adopted by a cat who needs to make use of his opposable thumbs, knows all too well the primary rule of their arrangement: never reveal the cat is a genius. Their clever scheme to win all the jackpots on Gizem Station works until a bigwig gets suspicious, and he finds himself stuffed...
The Book Lovers' Anthology: A Compendium of Writing about Books, Readers and Libraries
| Author | Bodleian Library |
| ISBN | 1851244182 |
A blessed companion is a book—a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend.”—Douglas William Jerrold
“Much reading is like much eating, wholly useless without digestion.”—Robert South
“If I had read as much as other men, I should have been as ignorant as they.”...
| Author | Marshall Kilduff |
| ISBN | 0885661451 |
Kilduff and Javers were both reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle and had covered the controversies surrounding Peoples Temple in the years preceding the tragedy. This book, compiled from previously written articles and the authors’ notes on Peoples Temple, was published just seven days...
Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings
| Author | Mike Weiss |
| ISBN | 0201095955 |
San Francisco, 1978: Dan White murders Mayor George Moscone and California’s first openly gay man to be elected to public office — the charismatic and visionary Supervisor Harvey Milk. Why?
If you think you know, the truth will surprise you.
In his newly updated, award-winning...
