Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form
8 best books like Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form (Madison Smartt Bell): On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, A Simple Heart, Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry, The Passion According to G.H., To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction, The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Writing Fiction and Nonfiction
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 0743455967 |
"Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every...
| Author | Gustave Flaubert |
| ISBN | 0811213188 |
A Simple Heart, also published as A Simple Soul.
In A Simple Heart, the poignant story that inspired Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot, Felicite, a French housemaid, approaches a lifetime of servitude with human-scaled but angelic aplomb. No other author has imparted so much beauty and...
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0553381008 |
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s...
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
| Author | Francine Prose |
| ISBN | 0060777052 |
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire...
| Author | Kim Addonizio |
| ISBN | 0393316548 |
The Poet's Companion presents brief essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and suggested subjects for writing, each followed by distinctive writing exercises. The ups and downs of writing life—including self-doubt and writer's block—are here, along with tips about getting published...
The Passion According to G.H.
| Author | Clarice Lispector |
| ISBN | 0816617120 |
Aficionados of South American fiction as well as literary critics will welcome this posthumous translation of a nearly plotless novel by one of Brazil's foremost writers. Availing herself of a single character, Lispector transforms a banal situation—a woman at home, alone—into an amphitheater...
| Author | Phillip Lopate |
| ISBN | 1451696329 |
A long-awaited new book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate—celebrated essayist, the director of Columbia University’s nonfiction program, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay.
Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal...
| Author | Alice LaPlante |
| ISBN | 0393061647 |
The Making of a Story is a fresh and inspiring guide to the basics of creative writing—both fiction and creative nonfiction. Its hands-on, completely accessible approach walks writers through each stage of the creative process, from the initial triggering idea to the revision of the final manuscript....
