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10 best books like Telling Stories (Joyce Carol Oates): The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song, June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint, The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, Creating Short Fiction: The Classic Guide to Writing Short Fiction, Contemporary American Poetry, Writing Poems, The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction, The Portable Faulkner, Poet's Choice, Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read & Write Poetry

The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song
AuthorEllen Bryant Voigt
ISBN1555975313
With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning....
June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint
AuthorJune Jordan
ISBN0415911680
I don't really know what to make of this book, or even how to describe it. The book grew out of the famous poetry class that June Jordan taught at Berkeley for many years, and it's something of a hodge podge. The book is essentially a compilation of materials for and by the class: student writings (both poetry...
The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life
AuthorPriscilla Long
ISBN0984242104
Suitable for both beginning and advanced writers of fiction and nonfiction, The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life distills 20 years of teaching and creative thought by the well-published author Priscilla Long. The Writer's Portable Mentor helps writers understand...
Creating Short Fiction: The Classic Guide to Writing Short Fiction
AuthorDamon Knight
ISBN0312150946
Distilled from decades of teaching and practice, this book offers clear and direct advice on structure, pacing, dialogue, getting ideas, working with the unconscious, and more. Newly revised and expanded for this Third Edition, Creating Short Fiction is a popular and widely trusted guide to writing...
Contemporary American Poetry
AuthorA. Poulin Jr.
ISBN0395745322
I own many books of poetry and a few poetry anthologies. It is rare that an anthology includes all of the poets whose work I admire, but this is one of those. As is the case for many anthologies, for those who are looking for samples of more experimental work, this is not for you. This includes the typical major...
Writing Poems
AuthorMichelle Boisseau
ISBN0321094239
This poetry text offers comprehensive coverage of the creative process and the technical aspects of writing poetry. Filled with practical advice for the beginning and more advanced poet, this text enlivens students' understanding of poetry, illustrates poetic principles, and serves as a reliable...
The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction
AuthorRobert L. Root Jr.
ISBN0321434846
This best-selling anthology is a comprehensive and indispensable introduction to the way creative nonfiction is written today. The Fourth Genre offers the most comprehensive, teachable, and current introduction available today to the cutting-edge, evolving genre of creative nonfiction. While...
The Portable Faulkner
AuthorWilliam Faulkner
In prose of biblical grandeur and feverish intensity, William Faulkner reconstructed the history of the American South as a tragic legend of courage and cruelty, gallantry and greed, futile nobility and obscene crimes. No single volume better conveys the scope of Faulkner's vision than The Portable...
Poet's Choice
AuthorEdward Hirsch
ISBN0156032678
Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet’s Choice" in the Washington Post Book World in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry. Poet’s Choice includes the work of more than...
Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read & Write Poetry
AuthorSage Cohen
ISBN1582975574
Writing Poetry for Everyday Life

"Poetry is just the evidence of life," says Leonard Cohen. "If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."

You don't need an advanced degree to reap the rewards of a rich poetic life–writing poetry is within the reach of everyone. Poet Sage...
The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students
AuthorHeather Sellers
ISBN0312436475
The Practice of Creative Writing is designed for all students in the introductory course, including those who may never take another writing class. Its message is, simply put: you can do this, and it's worthwhile to try. Heather Sellers, who writes in multiple genres herself, has developed an approach...
Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer
AuthorBret Anthony Johnston
ISBN0812975480
You already have the tools to become a gifted writer; what you need is the spark. Harvard creative writing professor and acclaimed author Bret Anthony Johnston brings you an irresistible interactive guide to the craft of narrative writing. From developing characters to building conflict, from mastering...
4 A.M. Breakthrough: Unconventional Writing Exercises That Transform Your Fiction
AuthorBrian Kiteley
ISBN1582975639
Realize All That Is Possible in Your Fiction

Writers have long turned to exercises for help with beginning—be it a new piece of fiction, a daily routine, or a serious writing life. Behind the theory of exercises is an attitude of curiosity and expectancy, a desire to ask questions of yourself...
Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings
AuthorMervyn Peake
ISBN0140046291
Brilliant, disturbing, fantastical and addicitive, Mervyn Peake at one time or another during his brief life touched on almost every literary form. For the aficionado and for the first-time reader, this selection of his less well-known works offers a treasure trove. It includes a wealth of short...
Written Lives
AuthorJavier Marías
ISBN0811216896
In addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" (TLS), Javier Marías is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Faulkner, Nabokov, and Laurence Sterne. His love for these authors is the touchstone of Written Lives. Collected...
The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief
AuthorJames Wood
ISBN0375752633
This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov,...
Fiction Writer's Workshop
AuthorJosip Novakovich
ISBN1884910394
This book exemplifies the best of a writing workshop: thought-provoking instruction, a charismatic teacher and illuminating examples from classic and contemporary literary masters.
Each chapter explores a different aspect of the art of fiction and ends with a series of writing exercises...
Making Shapely Fiction
AuthorJerome Stern
Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page—whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the principles of momentum, tension, and immediacy. "Tension,"...
The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Writing Fiction and Nonfiction
AuthorAlice LaPlante
ISBN0393061647
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....
The Writer's Block: 786 Ideas To Jump-start Your Imagination
AuthorJason Rekulak
ISBN0762409487
Anxious to write that Great American Novel but don't know where to begin? Help is on the way with our Writer's Block! This guide to beating writer's block comes packaged in the shape of an actual block: 3" x 3" x 3", with 672 pages and more than 200 photographs throughout. Next time you're stuck, just flip...
The Lie That Tells a Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction
AuthorJohn Dufresne
ISBN0393325814
Finally, a truly creative—and hilarious—guide to creative writing, full of encouragement and sound advice. Provocative and reassuring, nurturing and wise, The Lie That Tells a Truth is essential to writers in general, fiction writers in particular, beginning writers, serious writers, and...
Literature from the "Axis of Evil": Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations
AuthorAlane Mason
ISBN1595580700
Short stories and fiction excerpts from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, and other countries from whom the government would rather we didn't hear.

""Not knowing what the rest of the world is thinking and writing is both dangerous and boring.""--Alane Mason, founding editor,...
Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular
AuthorLawrence Rust Hills
ISBN0618082344
This is one of the best writer's guides I've ever read about the structure of the short story. Some of Rust Hill's opinions on popular fiction get pretty elitist. But his advice on how to write a quality short story has given me a lot to think about. It's a very good book.

One of my favorite passages...
Write That Book Already!: The Tough Love You Need to Get Published Now
AuthorSam Barry
ISBN1605501476
From the foreword by Maya Angelou:"[T]he joy they promise in their prose makes me glad that I and other writers have been willing to make good writing our aim, and even great writing our dream." "How do I get my book published?"Good question. Lucky for you, publishing insiders Sam Barry and Kathi Kamen...
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