Files, Meg
Summary: "It's easy to write about your feelings in a journal. It's more difficult, however, to convert personal experiences into stories worthy of publication--fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. Filled with engaging exercises, Writing what you know will guide you in identifying story-worthy material and transforming your raw material into finished pieces, through conquering fears associated with personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Words FilesMcDonell, Terry
Summary: Terry McDonell has top-edited some of the most influential publications in American journalism. His new book pulls back the curtain on his four-decade career as an editor, journalist, and media entrepreneur, with stops at more than a dozen magazines: from the launch of Outside through tenures at Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and, most recently, cofounding the literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCDONELL, TERRY MCDSmiley, Jane
Summary: "Essays that show how Smiley draws inspiration from across literary history to invigorate her own writing. Among the authors she examines are Marguerite de Navarre, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Franz Kafka, Halldor Laxness, and Jessica Mitford"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 SMICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SMIContents: This monkey, my back / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- View of writing fiction from the rear window / Doris Grumbach -- Smallness and invention; or, what I learned at the Iowa Writers' Workshop / Ethan Canin -- Ralston / Stuart Dybek -- Widow speaks / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Not knowing / Fred G. Leebron -- If I could be like Mike / Tom Grimes -- Mr. brain, he want a song / Barry Hannah -- Wise fool /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 ELEContents: Introduction / Will Blythe. -- At the point of my pen / Norman Mailer. -- Uncanny the singing that comes from certain husks / Joy Williams. -- Where does writing come from? / Richard Ford. -- A am a ... Genius! / Thom Jones. -- Some for glory, some for praise / James Salter. -- That's what dogs do / Amy Hempel. -- Stories / Pat Conroy. -- Writing and a life lived well: notes on Allan Gurganus /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 WHYFerrante, Elena
Summary: A delightful collection of essays exploring reading and writing. "In the Margins" contains Elena Ferrante's latest reflections on literature, and the works and authors that have influenced her throughout her career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 FERContents: Using your writer's handbook -- Steps in the writing process: Prewriting -- Drafting -- Revising -- Editing and proofreading -- Publishing -- Section 1: Prewriting: Getting started -- Be a list keeper -- Choose a topic -- Start thinking -- Organize your ideas -- Section 2: Drafting: What is a first draft? -- Sample first draft -- Time to write fiction: What is fiction? -- Story pieces -- Time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time for Kids Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Words TimeMcPhee, John
Summary: The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher Draft No. 4 is an elucidation of the writer's craft by a master practitioner. In a series of playful but expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he's gathered over his career and refined during his long-running course at Princeton University, where he has launched some of the most esteemed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "How We Do It is an anthology curated by Black writers for the creation and proliferation of Black thought. While a creator's ethnicity does not solely define them, it is inherently part of who they are and how they interpret the world. For centuries, Black creators have utilized oral and written storytelling traditions in crafting their art. But how does one begin the process of constructing a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 HOWOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 OATGoldberg, Natalie
Summary: A collection of essays in which the author explores methods of writing based on her experience in Zen meditation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 1986