Welty, Eudora
Summary: Eudora Welty was one of the twentieth century's greatest literary figures. For as long as students have been studying her fiction as literature, writers have been looking to her to answer the profound questions of what makes a story good, a novel successful, a writer an artist. On writing presents the answers in seven concise chapters discussing the subjects most important to the narrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.54 King,Bukowski, Charles
Summary: "Charles Bukowski's stories, poems, and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. In this collection of correspondence--letters to publishers, editors, friends, and fellow writers--the writer shares his insights on the art of creation." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 BUKSummary: Updike, Roth, Barth, Irving: their names reverberate in the halls of modern American literature. In this NewsHour program, these four literary icons—along with the highly regarded writers Frank McCourt and Susan Sontag—offer insights into their books and the heady, and sometimes frustrating, process of writing them. Episodes include…* Irish Ashes—A Conversation with Frank McCourt: Elizabeth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: How can a handful of words, scribbled on a napkin or a train schedule, grow into a timeless play? How does a storyteller create characters with lives and intentions of their own? Is writing a miraculous act, impossible to explain or describe, or is it 90 percent perspiration? In this program, a chorus of famous authors discuss creative strategies that lead to emotionally charged stories and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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King, Stephen
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2000
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Summary: A series of vivid memories from adolescence, college, and the struggling years that led up to Stephen King's first novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 King 2000McDonell, 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 MCDLevy, Deborah.
Summary: Things I Don't Want to Know is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of thrilling reflections on the writing life, this is a perfect companion not just to Orwell's essay, but also to Levy's own, essential oeuvre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.914 LEVSummary: A career-defining album bursting with Montoya's fierce guitar and passion-laden vocals, and the first to feature his longtime road band. Thirteen tracks of searing blues, soulful R&B, and high-energy rock n' roll include ten originals, five co-written by Coco, and guest appearances by Lee Roy Parnell and Ronnie Baker Brooks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL BLUES MONRusso, Richard
Summary: "In these nine essays, [the author] provides insight into his life as a writer, teacher, friend, and reader"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 RUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 RUSZinsser, William Knowlton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1998
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Summary: What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 ATWLamott, Anne.
Summary: As much a guide to writing as an exploration of the emotional challenges of being a writer, Lamott's book offers a candid and often humorous look at how to tackle these varied obstacles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1974
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAMcPhee, 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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 808 MCPMoore, Dinty W.
Summary: "This irreverent guide to crafting personal essays and creative nonfiction takes inspiration from the father of the essay, Michele de Montaigne, using lively essays to answer writing questions from top writers like Cheryl Strayed and Philip Lopate"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 MOOStegner, Wallace Earle
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 STEThurber, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 THUConroy, Pat
Summary: "A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life by Pat Conroy is a new nonfiction collection of letters, interviews, and magazine articles spanning Conroy's long literary career, supplemented by touching pieces from the beloved author's many friends. A Lowcountry Heart collects some of Conroy's most charming pieces of short nonfiction, many of them addressed directly to his readers with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016