Ron Carlson Writes a Story
9 best books like Ron Carlson Writes a Story (Ron Carlson): Pay Attention, Carter Jones, Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, A Poetry Handbook, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, Ironweed, John Keats: A New Life, The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes, The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Writing Fiction and Nonfiction, It Burns: The Scandal-Plagued Race to Breed the World’s Hottest Chilli
Pay Attention, Carter Jones
Carter Jones is astonished early one morning when he finds a real English butler, bowler hat and all, on the doorstep—one who stays to help the Jones family, which is a little bit broken.
In addition to figuring out middle school, Carter has to adjust to the unwelcome presence of this new know-it-all...
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 | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0156724006 |
A Poetry Handbook is something I wish I had read a lot earlier in my career as a student of literature, to say nothing of the tentative ventures I’ve made into writing poetry since I was young. A lot of people say this book is a good reiteration of things they learned in their college classes, but I sincerely...
| Author | Janet Burroway |
| ISBN | 0321277368 |
The most widely used and respected text in its field, Writing Fiction, 7e guides the novice story writer from first inspiration to final revision. A bestseller through six editions, Writing Fiction by novelists Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French explores the elements of fiction, providing...
| Author | William Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0743263065 |
Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike. He ran away again after accidentally -- and fatally -- dropping his infant son.
Now, in 1938, Francis is back in...
| Author | Nicholas Roe |
| ISBN | 0300124651 |
This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but prey to doubt, suspicion, and jealousy; sure...
| Author | Joan Silber |
| ISBN | 1555975305 |
Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible," asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the main tasks a writer faces is to define the duration of a plot. Silber uses wide-ranging examples from F....
| 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....
It Burns: The Scandal-Plagued Race to Breed the World’s Hottest Chilli
Written and hosted by Marc Fennell, It Burns is the story of a 10-year scandal-plagued international competition that will take listeners from the Australian Coast to South Carolina (via an Indian Research Facility).
It’s a war filled with larger than life characters. There will be sledging,...
