The Gifts of Reading by Jennie Orchard
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Category: Words and Writing
'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection. In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayis ...Show more
How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book by Rebecca Lee
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Category: Words and Writing
A behind-the-scenes tour for booklovers everywhere.
The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses by Declan Kiberd (Edited by) , Enrico Terrinoni (Edited by) , Catherine Wilsdon (Edited by)
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Category: Words and Writing
To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text. Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects treated in the novel, but what brings the ...Show more
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo
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Category: Words and Writing
A stunningly important piece of criticism that asks us not to look away when our shared culture proves so appallingly limited but instead to look harder. To think smarter. To read better.An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading - and our potential to become radically better reader ...Show more
Always Take Notes: Advice from the world's greatest writers by Simon Akam
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Category: Words and Writing
Bestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to their success, and the hard lessons they have learnt along the way. Where do the best ideas come from? How do you stay motivated? What does it take to become a published author? And how do you actually make money from your writing? For over five ...Show more
The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
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Category: Words and Writing
Steven Pinker, the best-selling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st century. What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In th ...Show more
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - 8th Revised edition by Elizabeth Knowles
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Category: Words and Writing
The first edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations was published in 1941 and for over 70 years this bestselling book has remained unrivalled in its coverage of quotations past and present. The eighth edition is a vast treasury of wit and wisdom spanning the centuries and providing the ultimate ans ...Show more
The Writer's Room by Charlotte Wood
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Category: Words and Writing
Charlotte Wood's online journal The Writer's Room has become essential reading for writers at all stages of their careers, and also pure reading pleasure for booklovers everywhere. Charlotte's interviews with a wide range of well-known writers range in topic from the subject matter of the writers' work ...Show more
Behind the Book: Eleven Authors on Their Path to Publication by Chris Mackenzie Jones
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Category: Words and Writing | Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing Ser.
Behind the Book explores how eleven contemporary authors, in genres ranging from postapocalyptic fiction to young adult fantasy to travel memoir, navigated the pathways to publishing with their debut works. Based on extensive interviews with the authors, it covers the process of writing and publishing a ...Show more
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms by Eavan Boland
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Category: Words and Writing
This anthology illuminates the history, practice, and wonder of our most elusive art, poetry. Intended for all those who love poetry, including teachers, readers, writers, and students. The anthology draws the reader in to the excitement and entertainment of various poetic forms.
Literary Lion Tamers: Book Editors Who Made Publishing History by Craig Munro
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Category: Words and Writing
'Writers, their friends, enemies, editors, and publishers began to materialise out of the library's archive boxes, and I found myself setting off in search of these elusive, eccentric, and often quarrelsome characters.' In this unique and entertaining blend of memoir, biography, and literary detective w ...Show more
Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate more effectively in the real world by Todd Rogers, Jessica Lasky-Fink
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Category: Words and Writing
We were all taught the fundamentals of writing well in school. But how do we write effectively in today's hyper-interactive world?When The Elements of Style and On Writing Well were published in 1959 and 1976, the internet hadn't been invented. Since then, there has been a radical transformation in how ...Show more