For Now by Eileen Myles
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Category: Writing | Series: Why I Write Ser.
In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work "A sharply etched, unvarnished self-portrait."--Kirkus Reviews "[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy to show us the way."--NPR ...Show more
From Big Idea to Book - Create a Writing Practice That Brings You Joy by Jessie L. Kwak
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Category: Writing
Successful author and creativity expert Jessie Kwak is here to help you do just that - and have fun doing it. To her, every part of the process is important: idea generation, development, research, planning, drafting, revising, and publication and they're all covered here in friendly, accessible detail. ...Show more
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Writing
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster ...Show more
Genius and Ink - Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Writing
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Fors ...Show more
Gentle Writing Advice: How to Be a Writer Without Destroying Yourself by Chuck Wendig
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Category: Writing
Finally--a book of writing advice that accounts for all of the messy, perverse, practical, and inexplicable parts of being a human who writes The truth is that all of the writing rules you've learned are bullshit. Sure, they work for some people, but the likelihood that they'll work for you--unique ...Show more
Griffith Review 63 - Writing the Country by Ashley Hay; Julianne Schultz
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Category: Writing | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
How we speak of and to the world we live in requires us to make sense of where we are and where we?re going; it requires us to describe, interrogate and analyse our places from the smallest to the grandest of scales.In the second issue of Griffith Review, published fifteen years ago, Melissa Lucashenko ...Show more
Griffith Review 66: The Novella Project VII by Ashley Hay
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Category: Writing | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Griffith Review'sseventh annual edition dedicated to the novella eschews a set theme to showcase work across a spectrum of subjects. Open to both fiction and creative non-fiction, Griffith Review'sdedication to the novella form has been hailed by Nick Earls as central to the revival of the form in Austr ...Show more
Griffith Review 68: Getting On by Ashley Hay
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Category: Writing | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
In a world where seventy is the new fifty, old age isn't what it used to be.By 2060, the ratio of Australians aged over sixty-five will have passed one in four. This unprecedented demographic transformation marks a quiet revolution with far-reaching consequences for both individuals and wider society.As ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
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Category: Writing | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by comedian and novelist David Baddiel A novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by now. However, as one of its most distinguishing features i ...Show more
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Writing
"Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?" Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How Should One Read a Book? celebrates the enduring importance of ...Show more
How to Find the Right Words (The School of Life) by The School The School of Life
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Category: Writing
Life constantly requires us to give other people some hugely awkward messages: that we don't love them anymore; that we do love them (though we're not meant to); that they smell a bit; that they're fired; that we're furious with them (though we adore them) or that their music is too loud...Often, out of ...Show more
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor - A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between by Thomas C. Foster
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Category: Writing
The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media. We live in an information age, but it is increasingly diff ...Show more