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The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House

10 best books like The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House (Dorothy Allison): Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins, Orange World and Other Stories, Sweet Land Stories, The Fox Woman, The Buddha in the Attic, We the Animals, At the Mouth of the River of Bees, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona, Believers: A novella and stories

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
AuthorEmma Donoghue
ISBN0064407721
Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with...
Orange World and Other Stories
AuthorKaren Russell
ISBN1984892215
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.

Karen Russell's...
Sweet Land Stories
AuthorE.L. Doctorow
ISBN1400062047
One of America’s premier writers, the bestselling author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and World’s Fair turns his astonishing narrative powers to the short story in five dazzling explorations of who we are as a people and how we live.

Ranging over the American...
The Fox Woman
AuthorKij Johnson
ISBN0312875592
Yoshifuji is a man fascinated by foxes, a man discontented and troubled by the meaning of life. A misstep at court forces him to retire to his long-deserted country estate, to rethink his plans and contemplate the next move that might return him to favor and guarantee his family's prosperity.Kitsune...
The Buddha in the Attic
AuthorJulie Otsuka
ISBN0307700003
Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago.

In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha...
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...
At the Mouth of the River of Bees
AuthorKij Johnson
ISBN1931520801
A sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: her stories have received the Nebula Award the last two years running. These stories feature cats, bees, wolves, dogs, and even that most capricious of animals, humans, and have been reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy...
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
AuthorLeslie Jamison
ISBN0316259616
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams, an exploration of addiction, and the stories we tell about it, that reinvents the traditional recovery memoir.

With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage,...
Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona
AuthorRyan Harty
ISBN0877458693
The vast, unsettling landscape of the American Southwest is as much a character in Ryan Harty's debut collection, Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona, as the men and women who inhabit its award-winning stories. In eight vivid tales of real life in the west, Harty reminds us that life's greatest challenge...
Believers: A novella and stories
AuthorCharles Baxter
ISBN0679776532
Believers: A Novella and Stories is another brilliant collection of stories from writer Charles Baxter. I had not read Baxter in some time so when I started this book, I was struck again with Baxter's freshness of tone and command of craft. However, I not only love Baxter for his skill and talent and inventiveness...
The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness
AuthorMaureen Murdock
ISBN0877734852
This book is DATED. Which is interesting because it was published 18 years ago. It's kind of wild that a book like this can seem so old because it indicates to me that quite a lot has happened in the last 18 years. This book came out when I was beginning my most radical feminist years and if I'd read it then, I'd...
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