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The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot

10 best books like The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot (Charles Baxter): Home, The Restraint of Beasts, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, We the Animals, Arcadia, The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, Bobcat and Other Stories, May We Be Forgiven

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AuthorToni Morrison
ISBN0307594165
America's most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.

Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing...
The Restraint of Beasts
AuthorMagnus Mills
ISBN0684865114
Once upon a time in Scotland, there were three men who built high-tension fences, the kind that keep animals in and humans out—or maybe the other way around. Magnus Mills gives us a wiry novel of tensile strength that proves him a writer of ferocious talent. Eerie, resonant, spare yet rich in tones both...
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
AuthorNatalie Goldberg
ISBN1590303164
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...
We the Animals
AuthorJustin Torres
ISBN0547576722
An exquisite, blistering debut novel.

Three brothers tear their way through childhood — smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are...
Arcadia
AuthorLauren Groff
ISBN1401340873
In the fields and forests of western New York State in the late 1960s, several dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding what becomes a famous commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House.

Arcadia follows this lyrical, rollicking, tragic, and exquisite...
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....
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
AuthorJohn Truby
ISBN0865479518
John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywood's most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. The Anatomy of Story is his long-awaited first book, and it shares all...
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
AuthorJanet Burroway
ISBN0321277368
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...
Bobcat and Other Stories
AuthorRebecca Lee
ISBN1616201738
Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels. A student plagiarizes a paper and holds fast to her alibi until she finds herself complicit in the resurrection of one professor's...
May We Be Forgiven
AuthorA.M. Homes
ISBN0670025488
A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life and the possibility of personal transformation

Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV executive, acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and...
Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow
AuthorFaïza Guène
ISBN0156030489
He thought I'd forged my mom's name on the slip. How stupid is that? On this thing Mom just made a kind of squiggly shape on the page. That jerk didn't even think about what he was saying, didn't even ask himself why her signature might be weird. He's one of those people who think illiteracy is like AIDS. It...
The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes
AuthorJoan Silber
ISBN1555975305
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....
Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas
AuthorWilliam H. Gass
ISBN0465026206
In the words of the late Walker Percy, William Gass is a “totally committed, totally uncompromising, and extraordinarily gifted writer.” His latest work is a suite of four novellas that explore Mind, Matter, and God.In the title story, God is a writer in a constant state of fumble, Mind is a housewife...
Crafting the Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Nonfiction
AuthorDinty W. Moore
ISBN1582977968
Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to "the pursuit of mental rabbits"--a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief that essays are stuffy and antiquated, the truth is...
Plot
AuthorAnsen Dibell
ISBN0898799465
"There are ways to create, fix, steer and discover plots--ways which, over a writing life, you'd eventually puzzle out for yourself," writes Ansen Dibell. "They aren't laws. They're an array of choices, things to try, once you've put a name to the particular problem you're facing now."

That's...
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 True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language
AuthorNatalie Goldberg
ISBN1451641265
Sit. Walk. Write. These are the barest bones of Natalie Goldberg’s revolutionary writing and life practice, which she presents here in book form for the first time. A whole new slant on writing that she developed since the publication of her classic Writing Down the Bones, True Secret workshops have...
Structuring Your Novel: Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story
AuthorK.M. Weiland
ISBN0985780401
Is Structure the Hidden Foundation of All Successful Stories?

Why do some stories work and others don’t? The answer is structure. In this new guide from the author of the bestselling Outlining Your Novel, you will discover the universal underpinnings that guarantee powerful plot and character...
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