The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers

6 best books like The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers (Vendela Vida): Wonder Boys, Townie, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace, The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads, Man in the Dark

Wonder Boys

Author	Michael Chabon
ISBN	3423124172

Second only to Catcher in the Rye in my all-time favorite list of books. If you are a writer, if you've taken a creative writing class, if you've verged on totally and completely fucking up your life with sweet redemption held just at your fingertips, but which you chose to thumb your nose at for just a teensy...

Townie

Author	Andre Dubus III
ISBN	0393064662

An acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him - until he was saved by writing.

After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill...

How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken

Author	Daniel Mendelsohn
ISBN	0061456438

Whether he's on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit. Now How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It...

Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace

Author

David Lipsky

In David Lipsky’s view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America. Wallace’s pieces for Harper’s magazine in the ’90s were, according to Lipsky, “like hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew: Here was how we all talked, experienced, thought. It was like...

The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads

Author	Daniel T. Willingham
ISBN	1119301378

Stop for a moment and wonder: what's happening in your brain right now—as you read this paragraph? How much do you know about the innumerable and amazing connections that your mind is making as you, in a flash, make sense of this request? Why does it matter?

The Reading Mind is a brilliant, beautifully...

Man in the Dark

Author	Paul Auster
ISBN	0571240763

Man in the Dark is Paul Auster’s brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us.

Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter’s house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself...