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3 Minutes or Less: Life Lessons from America's Greatest Writers
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An anthology of never-before-published short essays by America's literary greats. Each October at the PEN Gala, well-known authors take the stage of the Folger...
The Accidents of Style: Good Advice on How Not to Write Badly
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Fasten your seat belt for a crash course in careful usage.... Just like automobile accidents, accidents of style occur all over the English-speaking world, in...
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
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"If you're ready to graduate from the boy-meets-girl league of screenwriting, meet John Truby . . . [His lessons draw] epiphanies that make you see the contours of your psyche as sharply as your script."—LA Weekly
The Art of Attention: A Poet's Eye (Art of...)
The Art of Attention

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The Art Of series is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on important craft issues. Each book investigates an element of the craft of fiction,...
The Art of Description: World into Word (Art of...)
The Art of Description

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“It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see,” Mark Doty begins. “But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity...
The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot (Art of...)
The Art of Subtext

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"Think of subtext in fiction as water; its characters, swimmers on the surface. Like water, subtext is everywhere, ubiquitous and buoyant, darker in its depths, the stuff of immersion. The beauty of Baxter's inaugural entry in Graywolf's . . . 'Art of' series, which draws on examples in literature to instruct on the writing craft, is that it doesn't assume to try and capture the whole of subtext . . . Instead, it focuses on very specific qualities composing it: the art of staging in a story, the importance of inflection in dialog, the ambiguity of motivation. To make the often translucent substance more visible, Baxter highlights excerpts from a wide range of fiction, from the contemporaneous and familiar to the foreign and esoteric . . . Baxter's book will help readers read more creatively and writers to float their stories . . . Highly recommended for all academic libraries."—Maria Kochis, Library Journal
The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song (Art of...)
The Art of Syntax

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With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings...
The Art of the Poetic Line: (Art of...)
The Art of the Poetic Line
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The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes (Art of...)
The Art of Time in Fiction

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Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible,” asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a...
The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again (Art of...)
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“Respected critic Birkerts has written an insightful appreciation of the memoir form, works that occupy a growing . . . place in our literary culture. Analyzing five ways different writers have chosen to transform their memories into coherent narrative, Birkerts discerns the underlying principle of the memoir form: balancing two perspectives by revisiting significant events in the past to discover a pattern in one's present life . . . The appeal of this slim volume lies in Birkert's graceful prose and lucid analysis.”—Publishers Weekly

The ASJA Guide to Freelance Writing: A Professional Guide to the Business, for Nonfiction Writers of All Experience Levels
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Whether you're just starting out, considering going full-time, or are already a successful freelance writer, you'll find the information and insights needed to...
The Autobiographer's Handbook: The 826 National Guide to Writing Your Memoir
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“This book presents straightforward, practical ideas and advice from a double-handful of contemporary writers. Edited by memoirist Traig, a longtime 826 Valencia tutor, it's comprised largely of excerpts from wide-ranging, insightful round-table discussions among nonfiction practitioners . . . Besides lessons on celebrating the ordinary and the importance of humor, contributors also offer ways to push through the inevitable writer's block and handle miffed family and friends. Their guidance, complemented by writing exercises and work plans, should prove useful, informative and motivating for writers at just about any level.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
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"[The book] is a pleasure to read, and it performs an important function—by mucking around in the problems that plague contemporary fiction, Burning Down the House may spur both readers and writers first to a recognition of guilty complicity and then to constructive thought."—The New York Times Book Review
Business Writing: What Works, What Won't
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A thorough, accessible, and results-oriented guidebook intended for today's business environment, Business Writing: What Works, What Won't offers the first and...
Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation
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Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, a dash is...
The Copywriter's Handbook, Third Edition: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells
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The classic guide to copywriting, now in an entirely updated third edition This is a book for everyone who writes or approves copy: copywriters, account...
The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear
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Katherine Anne Porter called courage "the first essential" for a writer. "I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence," agreed Cynthia Ozick,...
Crafty Screenwriting: Writing Movies That Get Made
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"From the most elevated artistic concerns to the mundane details of how many brads to bind your script with, Alex Epstein shines the light of common sense and experience on this tricky, delicate, and profitable art. Every page sparkles with wisdom and wit. It is my new answer to the dozens of questions I'm asked by new writers eager to get it right."—Don Roos, screenwriter of Love Field, Boys on the Side, The Opposite of Sex, and Bounce
Crafty TV Writing: Thinking Inside the Box
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A professional TV writer’s real-world guide to getting paid to write great television "No need for me to ever write a book on TV writing. Alex Epstein has...
Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: Making Comics: Manga, Graphic Novels, and Beyond
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"Smartly designed and easy to understand, Abel and Madden’s text is an edifying course in creating comics. Comprised of 15 comprehensive lessons, readers are taught the basic elements necessary to conceptualize and produce their own comics. Assuming an audience range from individuals to a group, this pedagogical survey is written to serve a wide array of learners . . . Extensive backmatter, including helpful appendices on such topics as homework critiques, and a considerable bibliography round out the volume. This erudite study should leave its readers with a greater understanding and appreciation of the command one must possess to create graphic media. A valuable resource for all interested in the field."—Kirkus Reviews
Games for Writing: Playful Ways to Help Your Child Learn to Write
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There is no skill more important for a child to master more than writing - and none more difficult or fraught with anxiety. Peggy Kaye, renowned teacher and...
Grammar: The Structure of Language
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In the ancient scholarly curriculum, grammar formed part of the Trivium, with its sister sciences of logic and rhetoric. Logic asks: When is a sentence true?...
The Grammar Bible: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Grammar but Didn't Know Whom to Ask
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"[The authors] move logically from the parts of speech to the parts of the sentence and then to spelling, vocabulary, and punctuation, even encompassing thorny issues (e.g., sexist language, split infinitives) and complex grammatical terms (e.g., objective complements, gerund phrases). The authors also include a useful list of collocations and intersperse informative and often amusing 'Hot Line' queries throughout."—Library Journal
The Grammar Devotional: Daily Tips for Successful Writing from Grammar Girl (TM)
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Mignon Fogarty, perhaps better known as Grammar Girl, presents 365 accessible lessons on language that are sure to inspire every writer. Enhanced by quizzes, word search and scramble exercises, and the mnemonic cartoons and visualizations for which the Grammar Girl podcast is known, The Grammar Devotional also serves as a lasting reference and resource on grammar and style.
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