Category - Language Arts & Disciplines
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The American Language
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Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awar...
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Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship ...
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Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
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A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning...
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One Writer's Beginnings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Madness, violence, arcane obsessions, weird learning, ghastly comedy, all set out in an atmosphere of po-aced, high neo-Gothic. The geographical...
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Borges on Writing
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Borges On WritingIn 1971, Jorge Luis Borges was invited to preside over a series of seminars on his writing at Columbia University. This book is a ...
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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $36.00Original price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir about finding meaning in life through acts of creativity and imagination. As seen on PBS A...
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Translating Myself and Others
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Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors
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Translating Myself and Others
HardcoverOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translator Translating Myself and Others is a collectio...
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Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir about finding meaning in life through acts of creativity and imagination. As seen on PBS A...
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