Writing Life Stories
10 best books like Writing Life Stories (Bill Roorbach): Dear Committee Members, The Raw Shark Texts, Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives, The Art of Memoir, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, Teacher Man, Age of Iron, The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life, How to Write a Book Proposal, Create Your Writer Platform: The Key to Building an Audience, Selling More Books, and Finding Success as an Author
| Author | Julie Schumacher |
| ISBN | 0385538138 |
Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary."
Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters,...
| Author | Steven Hall |
| ISBN | 1841959111 |
Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house one day with no idea who or where he is. A note instructs him to see a Dr. Randle immediately, who informs him that he is undergoing yet another episode of acute memory loss that is a symptom of his severe dissociative disorder. Eric's been in Dr. Randle's care for two years...
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
| Author | John Palfrey |
| ISBN | 0465005152 |
"The first generation of "Digital Natives" - children who were born into and raised in the digital world - are coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture, and even the structure of our family life will be forever transformed." "Based on extensive...
| Author | Mary Karr |
| ISBN | 0062223062 |
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.
For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning...
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
| Author | William Zinsser |
| ISBN | 0060891548 |
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people...
| Author | Frank McCourt |
| ISBN | 0743243781 |
McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer.
Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his...
| Author | J.M. Coetzee |
| ISBN | 0140275657 |
In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought....
| Author | Marion Roach Smith |
| ISBN | 0446584843 |
A recent study revealed that the Number 1 thing that baby boomers want to do in retirement is write a book....about themselves. It's not that every person has lived such a unique or dramatic life, but we inherently understand that writing memoir-whether it's a book, blog, or just a letter to a child-is...
| Author | Michael Larsen |
| ISBN | 1582972516 |
Either this book was written by someone who knows nothing about writing a book proposal or he is writing about completely different proposals than what I am looking for and therefore should make it more clear what types he's writing about. I say this because pretty much EVERYTHING that I read in this book...
| Author | Chuck Sambuchino |
| ISBN | 1599635755 |
Creating a platform isn't just beneficial--"it's essential"!In today's world of blogging, websites, Twitter feeds, and Facebook updates, building a writer platform from the ground up can seem a daunting task. Never fear--author and editor Chuck Sambuchino provides expert, practical advice...
The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
From an award-winning, “meticulously observant” (The New Yorker) writer comes a powerful and moving account of how refugee teenagers at a Denver public high school learn English and become Americans.
The Newcomers follows the lives of twenty-two immigrant teenagers throughout the...
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice
| Author | Bryan Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0525635920 |
The young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1
New York Times
bestseller
Just Mercy
--soon to be a major motion picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jaime Foxx, and Brie Larson and now the subject of an HBO documentary feature!
In this very personal work--adapted from the original...
El espíritu de la ciencia ficción
| Author | Roberto Bolaño |
| ISBN | 8420423912 |
El espíritu de la ciencia ficción transcurre en México DF durante los años setenta y narra la vida de dos escritores jóvenes que intentan vivir de la literatura. Mientras Remo Morán busca incansablemente la manera de subsistir sin abandonar su sueño, Jan Schrella vive confinado en la pequeña...
How Quickly She Disappears
| Author | Raymond Fleischmann |
| ISBN | 1984805177 |
The Dry meets Silence of the Lambs in this intoxicating tale of literary suspense set in the relentless Alaskan landscape about madness and obsession, loneliness and grief, and the ferocious bonds of family …
It’s 1941 in small-town Alaska and Elisabeth Pfautz is alone. She’s living...
Riddance: Or the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children
"Shelley Jackson is a writer of such extraordinary, uncanny power that the hair on the back of my neck stands up when I encounter her work. What an exhilarating, prickling, blistering book Riddance is! I made myself read it as slowly as possible in order to stay in as long as I could." —Kelly Link, author...
The Teacher's Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy
| Author | Diane P. Freedman |
| ISBN | 0791457664 |
These highly personal essays from a range of academic settings explore the palpable moments of discomfort, disempowerment, and/or enlightenment that emerge when we discard the fiction that the teacher has no body. Visible and/or invisible, the body can transform both the teacher s experience and...
How to Drive Your Competition Crazy: Creating Disruption for Fun and Profit
| Author | Guy Kawasaki |
| ISBN | 0786881631 |
The best way to drive your competition crazy?
Continually doing what is best for your customers. That will always keep your competition guessing. If you keep your eyes on the prize, and you always do what is best for your company, things that you do will always be changing, but your strategy will...
Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: How to Use Your Own Stories to Communicate with Power and Impact
| Author | Annette Simmons |
| ISBN | 0814409148 |
"The ab-sence of human presence in today’s high-tech lifestyle leaves peo-ple starved for attention. Stories help people feel acknowledged,connected, and less alone. Your stories help them feel more alive. The sense of human presence in communication is frequently elbowed out by ‘‘criteria’’...
