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Hemingway's Student
The Devotions of Arnold Samuelson, Assistant and Acolyte
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
From the award-winning biography of Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway’s Boat: the poignant story of Arnold Samuelson, who looked to the great author for mentorship in writing and life.
He was a Midwesterner, a young journalist, haunted by inner demons, with a rambling gene, who headed down to...
by Orhan Pamuk
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book about reading and writing novels.
In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a comprehensive...
The Silent Woman
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
In an astonishing feat of literary detection, one of the most provocative critics of our time and the author of In the Freud Archives and The Purloined Clinic offers an elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography. In The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath...
Three Brothers
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Rapier-sharp, witty, intriguing, and mysterious: a new novel from Peter Ackroyd set in the London of the 1960s.
Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel, and Sam Hanway, a trio of brothers born on a postwar council estate in Camden Town. Marked from the start by curious coincidence,...
Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
An intellectual dissection of the modern media to show how an underlying economics of publishing warps the news.
A Writer's Coach
An Editor's Guide to Words That Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006
Mystified over misplaced modifiers? In a trance from intransitive verbs? Paralyzed from using the passive voice? To aid writers, from beginners to professionals, legendary writing coach Jack Hart presents a comprehensive, practical, step-by-step approach to the writing process. He shares his techniques...
Everything Explained That Is Explainable
On the Creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Everything Explained That Is Explainable is the audacious, utterly improbable story of the publication of the Eleventh Edition of the legendary Encyclopædia Britannica. It is the tale of a young American entrepreneur who rescued a dying publication with the help of a floundering newspaper, and in...
Me and Shakespeare
My Late Life Adventure with the Bard
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
On the eve of retiring from a successful publishing career, Herman Gollob attends a wonderful Broadway production of Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes. Galvanized by the splendor of the language, the drama and the acting, he discovers an insatiable passion for all things Shakespeare. He reads broadly...
by Jay McInerney
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us a novel that is stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting.
As he maps the fault lines spreading through the once-impenetrable marriage of Russell and Corrine...
In the Wilderness
Coming of Age in Unknown Country
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Poet Kim Barnes grew up in northern Idaho, in the isolated camps where her father worked as a logger and her mother made a modest but comfortable home for her husband and two children. Their lives were short on material wealth, but long on the riches of family and friendship, and the great sheltering...
by Alexandra Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
"Whom do I tell when I tell a blank page?" Virginia Woolf's question is one that generations of readers and writers searching to map a creative life have asked of their own diaries. No other document quite compares with the intimacies and yearnings, the confessions and desires, revealed...
Sea Lovers
Selected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
From the bestselling author of Mary Reilly and the internationally acclaimed Property, a brilliant collection featuring Valerie Martin's finest short stories to date.
For four decades Valerie Martin has been publishing novels and stories that demonstrate her incredible range as a writer, moving...
Beyond the Writers' Workshop
New Ways to Write Creative Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
An innovative new approach to teaching and writing creative nonfiction from veteran teacher and critically acclaimed author Carol Bly.
Teachers and writers everywhere are facing the limits imposed by the prevailing models of teaching: community or MFA “workshops” or, at the high-school...
by Steven Frank
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Steven Frank has a new approach to writing: fun first, rules to follow, success for all. In The Pen Commandments, his offbeat and entertaining guide, he's given us a book that all writers can turn to for help and a good laugh.
With outrageous anecdotes (how a kid's oral surgery led to the ultimate...