You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between
10 best books like You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between (Lee Gutkind): How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, The Art of Memoir, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups—Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000, Stein on Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies, How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them, Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction, A People and a Nation [with Atlas], Letters to an American Lady, The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
| Author | Alexander Chee |
| ISBN | 1328764524 |
From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in art.
As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times,...
| 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...
Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups—Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000
| Author | Jason Calacanis |
| ISBN | 0062560700 |
One of Silicon Valley’s most successful angel investors shares his rules for investing in startups.
There are two ways to make money in startups: create something valuable—or invest in the people that are creating valuable things.
Over the past twenty-five years, Jason Calacanis...
Stein on Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
| Author | Sol Stein |
| ISBN | 0312254210 |
Stein on Writing provides immediately useful advice for all writers of fiction and nonfiction, whether they are newcomers or old hands, students or instructors, amateurs or professionals. As the always clear and direct Stein explains here, "This is not a book of theory. It is a book of usable solutions--how...
| Author | Sol Stein |
| ISBN | 0312267495 |
Each year thousands of fiction writers, from beginners to bestselling author, benefit from Sol Stein's sold-out workshops, featured appearances at writers' conferences, software for writers, on-line columns, and his popular first book for writers, Stein on Writing. Stein practices what he teaches:...
Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
| Author | Tracy Kidder |
| ISBN | 1400069750 |
Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment....
| Author | Mary Beth Norton |
| ISBN | 0618093338 |
A People and a Nation is a spirited narrative that challenges students to think about the meaning of American history. Its thoughtful inclusion of the lives of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture preserves the text's basic approach to American history as a story of all the...
Letters to an American Lady
On October 26, 1950, C. S. Lewis wrote the first of more than a hundred letters he would send to a woman he had never met, but with whom he was to maintain a correspondence for the rest of his life.
Ranging broadly in subject matter, the letters discuss topics as profound as the love of God and as frivolous...
| 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 | Vivian Gornick |
| ISBN | 0374528586 |
A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love
All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can...
In the tradition of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares inspiration and practical advice for writing a memoir.
Writing memoir is a deeply personal, and consequential, undertaking. As the acclaimed author of five memoirs spanning significant...
| Author | Phillip Lopate |
| ISBN | 1451696329 |
A long-awaited new book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate—celebrated essayist, the director of Columbia University’s nonfiction program, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay.
Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal...
Gerard covers everything from getting the assignment to conducting a stirring interview to working with an editor - including how to go "where the story lives" to experience the first-hand emotional facts - sights, smells, sounds - that will give your story immediacy; find the right form for the story...
| Author | Dinty W. Moore |
| ISBN | 1582977968 |
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...
| Author | Jack R. Hart |
| ISBN | 0226318141 |
From the work of the New Journalists in the 1960s, to the New Yorker essays of John McPhee, Susan Orlean, Atul Gawande, and a host of others, to blockbuster book-length narratives such as Mary Roach’s Stiff or Erik Larson’s Devil in the White City, narrative nonfiction has come into its own. Yet...
Under a Blood Red Sun: The Remarkable Story of PT Boats in the Philippines and the Rescue of General MacArthur
I was excited when I first heard this book was coming out, since the adventures of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 and the Philippines in WWII have been a bit of an interest of mine ever since I saw the film They Were Expendable. Since then I've read several books dealing with the fall and recapture of the Philippines,...
WHAT DO THE NEW ARRIVALS ON SANDHAMN ISLAND HAVE TO FEAR? THEIR OWN SECRETS - IN THIS GRIPPING NOVEL OF SUSPENSE BY THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF 'IN THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT'.
The new summer house on Sandhamn Island is an architectural dream for its owner, Carsten Jonsson. It's a nightmare for the...
How to Break Into Pharmaceutical Sales: A Headhunter's Strategy
| Author | Tom Ruff |
| ISBN | 0978607015 |
Today, more and more candidates are competing for positions in the rewarding field of pharmaceutical sales. With award-winning author Tom Ruff on your side, you can become one of the breakthrough stories. In his down-to-earth and deeply practical style, the President and CEO of Tom Ruff Company shares...
Conversationally Speaking: Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness
This is an updated cover edition of 9781565656291.
*ALMOST 1 MILLION SOLD!* This is the most popular book in the world teaching conversational skills. More than a million people have learned the secrets of effective conversation using Conversationally Speaking. This revised edition provides...
| Author | John Mark Comer |
| ISBN | 0310344204 |
Many of us ache for relationship with God, yet feel distant and disconnected from him. As if he’s more of an idea we believe in our head than a person we relate to. But God has a name: Yahweh. This one simple idea has the potential to radically alter how you relate to God, not as a doctrine, but as a relational...
Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing
| Author | Carol Shields |
| ISBN | 0345815963 |
In the course of her extraordinary career, which included the novels The Stone Diaries, Larry's Party, The Republic of Love and Unless, as well as poetry, short stories, biography and plays, Carol Shields was unfailingly encouraging of other writers. She read and commented on her friends' manuscripts....
Virga & Bone: Essays from Dry Places
| Author | Craig Childs |
| ISBN | 1948814188 |
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| Author | J.M. Berger |
| ISBN | 0262535874 |
What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence.
A rising tide of extremist movements threaten to destabilize civil societies around the globe. It has never been more important to understand extremism, yet the dictionary definition—a...
| Author | Takis Wurger |
| ISBN | 0802148328 |
As a boy, Hans Stichler enjoys a fable-like childhood among the rolling hills and forests of North Germany, living an idyll that seems uninterruptable--until two disasters change his life forever. He falls into the guardianship of his eccentric English aunt Alex, who invites him to come to university...
Beating Endo: How to Reclaim Your Life from Endometriosis
| Author | Iris Kerin Orbuch |
| ISBN | 0062861832 |
From two of the world’s leading experts in endometriosis comes an essential, first-of-its kind book that unwraps the mystery of the disease and gives women the tools they need to reclaim their lives from it.
Approximately one out of every 10 women has endometriosis, an inflammatory disease...
Pcos SOS: A Gynecologist's Lifeline To Naturally Restore Your Rhythms, Hormones, and Happiness
| Author | M D Felice Gersh |
| ISBN | 1911443119 |
A breakthrough program to heal Polycystic Ovary Syndrome naturally
10% of all women have PCOS, making it the most common female endocrine disorder and cause of female infertility in the world. Women with PCOS may suffer from acne, menstrual irregularity, infertility, obesity, autoimmune...
Your Dad Stole My Rake: And Other Family Dilemmas
| Author | Tom Papa |
| ISBN | 1250144388 |
It's hard being a person, especially in a family, and no one knows that better than stand-up comedian, family man, and A Prairie Home Companion head writer and performer, Tom Papa.
How do you deal with a life filled with a whole host of characters and their bizarre, inescapable behavior? Especially...
| Author | Walter Kempowski |
| ISBN | 3813502643 |
Winter, January 1945. It is cold and dark, and the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and on foot. But in a rural East Prussian manor house, the wealthy von Globig family tries to seal itself off from the...
| Author | Robbie Arnott |
| ISBN | 1925603520 |
A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, Charlotte—who promptly runs for her life. A water rat swims upriver in quest of the cloud god. A fisherman named Karl hunts for tuna in partnership with a seal. And a father takes form from fire.
The...
