Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times
9 best books like Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times (The New York Times): Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue, Daniel Martin, The Innocents, Extraordinary Relationships: A New Way of Thinking about Human Interactions, Broken Wide Whole: Prayers for Daily Living
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1590303164 |
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...
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
| Author | Benjamin Dreyer |
| ISBN | 0812995708 |
A witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading enforcers of proper grammar--a twenty-first-century
Elements of Style.
As authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has...
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
| Author | Rachel Louise Snyder |
An award-winning journalist's intimate investigation of the true scope of domestic violence, revealing how the roots of America's most pressing social crises are buried in abuse that happens behind closed doors.
We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call...
| Author | Mark Kramer |
| ISBN | 0452287553 |
Inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything...
| Author | Edwin H. Friedman |
| ISBN | 0898620597 |
This acclaimed, influential work applies the concepts of systemic family therapy to the emotional life of congregations. Edwin H. Friedman shows how the same understanding of family process that can aid clergy in their pastoral role also has important ramifications for negotiating congregational...
Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. Daniel is a screenwriter working in Hollywood, who finds himself dissatisfied with his career and with the person he has become. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travels...
From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness.
A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline....
Extraordinary Relationships: A New Way of Thinking about Human Interactions
This book gives an explanation of Bowen's family system theory. The first half of the book is heavy on the theory, and then the second half gets into a little bit of how to use it in real life. It doesn't read like a self-help book, and Gilbert gets props for not using words like "codependence" and other jingoistic...
Broken Wide Whole: Prayers for Daily Living
| Author | Suzanne L Vinson |
| ISBN | 0692152377 |
Broken Wide Whole: Prayers for Daily Living is a collection of 50 prayers and 34 full-color watercolor works by artist and minister suzanne l. vinson. These prayers usher the reader to create a sacred pause in the art of daily living. Written as poetry and prose, these prayers help connect you to the Divine...
