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Reading Like a Writer

by Francine Prose

Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose. In Reading Like …
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The Art of Fiction

by David Lodge

The articles with which David Lodge entertained and enlightened readers of the Independent on Sunday and The Washington Post are now revised, expanded and collected together in book form. The …
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On Becoming a Novelist

by John W Gardner

"One of the greatest creative writing teachers we've ever had." —Frederick Busch On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer …
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The Elements of Technical Writing

by Thomas E. Pearsall

One-quarter the length and price of "conventional" textbooks, this popular introduction to technical writing teaches the essentials with remarkable economy, clarity, and authority. The book is divided into two parts. …
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The Art of Fiction

by John Gardner

This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writers—and will continue to do so for many years to come. John …
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Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition

by Renni Browne

Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade …
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Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

by Patricia Highsmith

Originally published in Great Britain by Polar Press Limited.
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Fiction Writer's Workshop

by Josip Novakovich

Master the Elements of the Writing Workshop &break;&break;The great paradox of the writing life is that to be a good writer, you must be both interested in the world around …
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Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint

by Orson Scott Card

Vivid and memorable characters aren't born: they have to be made. &break;&break;This book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, …
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Where I'm Calling From

by Raymond Carver

The final story collection from “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) features classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk …
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Elements of Fiction Writing - Description

by Monica Wood

Description is most powerful when it's visible, aural, tactile. Make your descriptions fresh and they'll move your story forward, imbue your work with atmosphere, create that tang of feeling that …
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On Writing

by Stephen King

The author shares his insights into the craft of writing and offers a humorous perspective on his own experience as a writer.
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The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway

by Ernest Hemingway

The complete, authoritative collection of Ernest Hemingway's short fiction, including classic stories like "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," along …
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In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after …
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Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

by Isaac Babel

To read Babel is to experience the wild and often terrifying swings of Russian history."--BOOK JACKET.
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