Category - Literary Criticism
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Novelist as a Vocation
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Notes From Your Bookseller Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami is as close to being Haruki Murakami (apologies to John Malkovich) as we’ll ...
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Elements of Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Following his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, award-winning author Walter Mosley delivers an eloquent treatise on the cr...
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Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Even though writing is a solitary act, when I sit with words that I trust will be read by someone, I know that I can never be truly alone." --bell...
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Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In Our Difficult Sunlight, Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia Popoff demonstrate the power of poetry in the K-12 classroom. Drawing on their combined ...
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The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From Charles Johnson--a National Book Award winner, Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, and one of America's preeminent scholars on lit...
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Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen: Conversations with Contemporary Black Poets
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Malin Pereira's collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthet...
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Writing Memoir: The Practical Guide to Writing and Publishing the Story of Your Life
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Done properly, memoir is more than just a recitation of facts about a person's life.It's a journey, connecting writer and reader in that shared spa...
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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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Women and Writing
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Known for her novels, and for the dubious fame of being a doyenne of the 'Bloomsbury Set', in her time Virginia Woolf was highly respected as a maj...
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Granite and Rainbow
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Granite and Rainbow is a collection of essays on the art of writing fiction and biographies.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781447469292 Media Type: Paper...
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The Art of Fiction - A Collection of Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century, Woolf was a central figure in the feminist criticism movement of ...
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Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry In Don’t Read ...
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Spine Poems: An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A charming, clever, and original collection of more than 100 spine poems–a popular form of found poetry composed by arranging book spines—illustr...
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What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unma...
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Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This national bestseller is "a significant contribution to discussions of the art of fiction and a necessary challenge to received views about wh...
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The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea Light Edwidge Danticat’s The Art of Death: W...
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Why I Write
PaperbackOriginal price $13.00 - Original price $13.00Original price $13.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A selection of George Orwell's politically charged essays on language and writing that give context to his dystopian classic, 1984Throughout hist...
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On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions
HardcoverOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /"While writing about writing is often deadly, Lewis is as delightful as he is wise." --The New York TimesA definitive collection of wisdom on every...
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How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks ...
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How to Reread a Novel
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /A novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Reread a Novel, Matthew Clark e...
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How to Reread a Novel
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /A novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Reread a Novel, Matthew Clark e...
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Novelist as a Vocation
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Notes From Your Bookseller Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami is as close to being Haruki Murakami (apologies to John Malkovich) as we’ll ...
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Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$71.99$71.99 - $71.99Current price $71.99| /Winner of the Lewis P. Simpson AwardIn Becoming Poetry, Jay Rogoff closely inspects the work of two dozen poets, his forebears and his contempora...
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Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Winner of the Lewis P. Simpson AwardIn Becoming Poetry, Jay Rogoff closely inspects the work of two dozen poets, his forebears and his contempora...
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