• You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between

    From "the godfather behind creative nonfiction" (Vanity Fair) comes this indispensable how-to for nonfiction writers of all levels and genres, "reminiscent of Stephen King's fiction handbook On Writing" (Kirkus). Whether you're writing a rags-to-riches tell-all memoir or literary journalism, telling true stories well is hard work. In You Can't Make This Stuff Up, Lee Gutkind, the go-to expert for all things creative nonfiction, offers his unvarnished wisdom to help you craft the best writing possible. Frank, to-the-point, and always entertaining, Gutkind describes and illustrates every aspect... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0738215546
    • ASIN: 0738215546
    • ISBN: 0738215546
    • Brand: Da Capo Lifelong Books
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Lifelong Books

  • The Crafty Art of Playmaking

    For the first time, Alan Ayckbourn shares all of his tricks of the playwright's trade. From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing, the book provides a complete primer for the newcomer and a refresher for the more experienced. Written in Ayckbourn's signature style that combines humor, seriousness, and heady air of theatrical sophistication that Noel Coward would envy, The Crafty Art of Playmaking is a must-have for aspiring playwrights and students of drama.

    • ASIN: B00URTM4JY
    • ASIN: B00URTM4JY
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

  • DIY MFA: Write with Focus, Read with Purpose, Build Your Community

    Get the Knowledge Without the College! You are a writer. You dream of sharing your words with the world, and you're willing to put in the hard work to achieve success. You may have even considered earning your MFA, but for whatever reason--tuition costs, the time commitment, or other responsibilities--you've never been able to do it. Or maybe you've been looking for a self-guided approach so you don't have to go back to school. This book is for you.DIY MFA is the do-it-yourself alternative to a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. By combining the three main components of a traditional MFA... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1599639343
    • UPC: 035313664458
    • ASIN: 1599639343
    • ISBN: 1599639343
    • Brand: Writer's Digest
    • Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books

  • 15 Actors, 20 Years: Making Lives In and Out of the American Theatre

    What do Siggy the Viking, a celebrity chef and a Blue Man have in common? Believe it or not, theatre school.1995: Young arts journalist Todd London is blown away by the talent-packed graduating class of Harvard's ART. London writes about their first difficult year as professional actors in New York City.2015: London finds out what became of these exceptional artists. Who’s still acting? Who quit the business? And what does “making it” even mean? Todd London's first e-book, 15 Actors, 20 Years is the fascinating professional biography of a gifted group — and a meditation on what it mea... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B01DZ5K9KC
    • ASIN: B01DZ5K9KC
    • Manufacturer: Dutch Kills Press, LLC

  • The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing

    “I don’t know why we do it. We must be crazy./Welcome, fellow poet.”―Richard Hugo Richard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer called “one of the most passionate, energetic and honest poets living,” was that rare phenomenon―a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo’s classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all “directed toward helping with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems.” From pieces that include “Writing off the Subject” and “How Poets Make a Living,” anyone, from th... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 039333872X
    • ASIN: 039333872X
    • ISBN: 039333872X
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project's Process of Devising Theater

    A detailed guide to the collaborative method developed by the acclaimed creators of The Laramie Project and Gross Indecency--destined to become a classic. A Vintage Original.By Moisés Kaufman and Barbara Pitts McAdams with Leigh Fondakowski, Andy Paris, Greg Pierotti, Kelli Simpkins, Jimmy Maize, and Scott Barrow. For more than two decades, the members of Tectonic Theater Project have been rigorously experimenting with the process of theatrical creation. Here they set forth a detailed manual of their devising method and a thorough chronicle of how they wrote some of their best-known works. T... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1101971770
    • ASIN: 1101971770
    • ISBN: 1101971770
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • John Singer Sargent: Watercolors

    John Singer Sargent’s approach to watercolor was unconventional. Going beyond turn-of-the-century standards for carefully delineated and composed landscapes filled with transparent washes, his confidently bold, dense strokes and loosely defined forms startled critics and fellow practitioners alike. One reviewer of an exhibition in London proclaimed him “an eagle in a dove-cote”; another called his work “swagger” watercolors. For Sargent, however, the watercolors were not so much about swagger as about a renewed and liberated approach to painting. In watercolor, his vision became more... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0878467912
    • ASIN: 0878467912
    • ISBN: 0878467912
    • Brand: Brand: MFA Publications/Brooklyn Museum
    • Manufacturer: MFA Publications/Brooklyn Museum

  • Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

    Finalist for the National Book Award for PoetryWinner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection“[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.”―The New Yorker Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don’t Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity they deserved here on earth. Smith tu... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1555977855
    • ASIN: 1555977855
    • ISBN: 1555977855
    • Manufacturer: Graywolf Press

  • How to be a Travel Writer (Lonely Planet)

    Bursting with invaluable advice, this inspiring and practical guide, fully revised and updated in this new edition, is a must for anyone who yearns to write about travel - whether they aspire to make their living from it or simply enjoy jotting in a journal for posterity. You don't have to make money to profit from travel writing. Sometimes, the richest rewards are in the currency of experience. How to be a Travel Writer reveals the varied possibilities that travel writing offers and inspires all travellers to take advantage of those opportunities. That's where the journey begins - where it ta... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1786578662
    • ASIN: 1786578662
    • ISBN: 9781786578662
    • Manufacturer: Lonely Planet

  • Creative Writing Mfa Handbook: A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students (Revised & Updated)

    Revised and Updated! The Creative Writing MFA Handbook guides prospective graduate students through the difficult process of researching, applying to, and choosing graduate schools in creative writing. The handbook includes profiles of fifty creative writing programs, guidance through the application process, advice from current professors and students including George Saunders, Aimee Bender, Tracy K. Smith, and Geoffrey Wolff, and the most comprehensive listings of graduate writing programs in and outside the United States. The handbook also includes special sections about Low-Residency writi... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 082642886X
    • ASIN: 082642886X
    • ISBN: 082642886X
    • Manufacturer: Continuum

  • In the Palm of Your Hand, Second Edition: A Poet's Portable Workshop (Second Edition)

    *Over 90,000 copies sold*Long an anchor text for college and junior college writing classes, this illuminating and invaluable guide has become a favorite for beginning poets and an ever-valuable reference for more advanced students who want to sharpen their craft, expand their technical skills, and engage their deepest memories and concerns.This edition adds Steve Kowit’s famous essay on poetics “The Mystique of the Difficult Poem,” in which he argues stirringly and forcefully that a poem need not be obscure to be great.Ideal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire stud... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0884485315
    • ASIN: 0884485315
    • ISBN: 9780884485315
    • Brand: TILBURY HOUSE
    • Manufacturer: Tilbury House Publishers

  • The Portable MFA in Creative Writing

    Get the core knowledge of a prestigious MFA education without the tuition.Have you always wanted to get an MFA, but couldn't because of the cost, time commitment, or admission requirements?Well now you can fulfill that dream without having to devote tons of money or time. The Portable MFA gives you all of the essential information you would learn in the MFA program in one book. Covering fiction, memoirs, personal essays, magazine articles, poetry, and playwriting, this book provides you with:Inspiration and tips on revision, stamina, and productivityClear instruction on the craft behind the ar... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1582973504
    • UPC: 035313109799
    • ASIN: 1582973504
    • ISBN: 1582973504
    • Brand: Writer's Digest
    • Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books

  • How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

    Written in a clear, crisp, accessible style, this book is perfect for beginners as well as professional writers who need a crash course in the down-to-earth basics of storytelling. Talent and inspiration can't be taught, but Frey does provide scores of helpful suggestions and sensible rules and principles.An international bestseller, How to Write a Damn Good Novel will enable all writers to face that intimidating first page, keep them on track when they falter, and help them recognize, analyze, and correct the problems in their own work.

    • ASIN: 0312010443
    • ASIN: 0312010443
    • ISBN: 0312010443
    • Brand: St Martin s Press
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

  • The Light the Dead See

    Between 1972, when he published his first book, The Signing Knives, and 1978, when he died at the age of twenty-nine, Frank Stanford published seven volumes of poetry. Within a year of his death, two posthumous collections were published. At the time of this death, as Leon Stokesbury asserts in his introduction, “Stanford was the best poet in America under the age of thirty-five.”The Light the Dead See collects the best work from those nine volumes and six previously unpublished poems. In the earlier poems, Stanford creates a world where he could keep childhood alive, deny time and mutabil... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1557281939
    • ASIN: 1557281939
    • ISBN: 1557281939
    • Brand: Brand: University of Arkansas Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Arkansas Press

  • The Modern Library Writer's Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction (Modern Library Paperbacks)

    “Make [your] characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.” —Kurt Vonnegut“‘The cat sat on the mat’ is not the beginning of a story, but ‘the cat sat on the dog’s mat’ is.” —John Le CarréNothing is more inspiring for a beginning writer than listening to masters of the craft talk about the writing life. But if you can’t get Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, and Gabriel García Márquez together at the Algonquin, The Modern Library Writer... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0375755586
    • ASIN: 0375755586
    • ISBN: 0375755586
    • Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

  • In Fact : The Best of Creative Nonfiction

    A tenth anniversary collection of twenty-five narrative essays originally published in the journal, Creative Nonfiction, includes Lauren Slater's discussion of her work as a therapist at an institution where she was once a patient, John

    • UPC: 3164130
    • Rating: 3.0

  • The Best Creative Nonfiction

    Gutkind and the staff of his landmark journal "Creative Nonfiction" have culled alternative publications, 'zines, blogs, literary journals, and other often overlooked publications in search of new voices and innovative ideas--essays and articles written with

    • UPC: 5649635
    • Rating: 3.0

  • The New New Journalism : Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft

    A collection of interviews and dialogues with eighteen leading nonfiction writers sheds new light on the ways in which the authors perfect their craft, as well as how they conduct interviews, gather information, and decide

    • UPC: 2699693
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Best Creative Nonfiction, Volume 3

    Intelligent but accessible, and often poignant . . . [by] the biggest talents on the essay and blog beat. Publishers Weekly (on Vol.

    • UPC: 10743963
    • Rating: 3.571

  • The Best Creative Nonfiction (Vol. 3) - eBook

    “Intelligent but accessible, and often poignant . . . [by] the biggest talents on the essay and blog beat.” —Publishers Weekly (on Vol. 2)Anyone still asking, “What is creative nonfiction?” will find the answer in

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    • Rating: 4.167

  • The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2

    "Blending precise research and astute observation with flavorful, fascinating narratives." Publishers Weekly, starred review (for Vol.

    • UPC: 8029650
    • Rating: 4.167

  • Best Summer Programs for Teens, The

    Shares summer programs across the United States and offers guidance on how to use summer opportunities to help gain entrance into selective

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    • Rating: 3.222

  • The Best Poetry Exercises from Grad School (No MFA Tuition Necessary) - eBook

    Poetry exercises are a smart way to develop ones "toolbox" -- but why would you want to pay $15,000-45,000 per year to get to those exercises? Our book offers poets at all levels a variety

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  • Discover Your Menopause Type : The Exciting New Program That Identifies the 12 Unique Menopause Types & the Best Choices for You

    Take Charge of Your Menopause!This groundbreaking book--the first to reveal 12 distinct menopause types and how best to treat each--gives you the information you need to take charge of this challenging and sensitive life stage.

    • UPC: 29325329

  • The View from the Cheap Seats : Selected Nonfiction

    An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories observed in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman s probing, amusing, and distinctive

    • UPC: 55344941
    • Rating: 4.313

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