Summary: Being a writer isn't all book signings and fat royalty checks. By looking squarely at the potential downside of the writing life-rejection letters, second-novel syndrome, and really bad reviews-this program offers insider tips on coping while encouraging viewers to press on to success. Professional writers such as Martin Amis, Pat Conroy, Joyce Carol Oates, and Maxine Hong Kingston are joined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Presents a collection of "Peanuts" comic strips that revolve around writers and the art of writing along with advice and insights from such authors as Clive Cussler, Elmore Leonard, and Daniele Steele.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SNOHumphreys, Helen
Summary: "Poet and novelist Helen Humphreys's And a Dog Called Fig, a meditation on the benefits of dogs to the creative life, including the dogs of well-known writers from history, portraits of all the dogs from the author's life, and the arrival and raising of her new puppy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUMPHREYS, HELEN HUMSummary: In this specially-commissioned anthology, sixty accomplished authors share secrets and insights into their writing lives: on their inspirations, methods, wild ideas and daily routines; on the pleasure and the pain in achieving their literary goals; on how they started out and how they hope to continue. They outline some golden rules for staying on track and talk candidly about what goes wrong...
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Publisher / Publication Date: British Library Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 SWABusch, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 BUSContents: 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 ELEOates, 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 OATCameron, Julia.
Summary: Argues that conventional writing methods actually stifle creativity, presenting illustrative stories and the author's personal writing techniques that are designed to unlock one's creative powers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 CAMGeorge, Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Currents 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 GEOMcDonell, 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 MCDRusso, 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, Call number: 814 RUSWideman, John Edgar
Summary: "In The Louis Till File, John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, a silent victim of American injustice. Wideman's personal interaction with the story began when he learned of Emmett’s murder in 1955; Wideman was also fourteen years old. After reading decades later about Louis’s execution, he couldn’t escape the twin tragedies of father and son, and tells their stories together for the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TILL, LOUIS WIDBrooks, Terry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 BROPerhach, Paulette
Summary: "With warmth and humor, the author welcomes you into the writer's life as someone who has been there on the other side looking in. Like a freshman orientation for writers, this book includes an in-depth exploration of all the elements of a writer's life, from your writing practice to your reading practice, to your writing craft and the all-important and often-overlooked business of writing....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2018
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Summary: Provides practical coaching on writing long or short autobiographical narratives, including a history of autobiography and examples from such writers as Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Russell Baker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.066 RAIMetzger, Deena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.066 METAronie, Nancy Slonim
Summary: "A discussion of the healing benefits of memoir writing along with pragmatic advice for writing one. Includes a set of prompts, directions, and examples to help readers become writers of their own personal stories"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.06 AROLipman, Elinor.
Summary: A winning collection of essays about home, love, cooking, politics, and the writing life from the acclaimed novelist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 LIPMicklos, John
Summary: "With the Declaration of Independence, the 13 colonies in America declared their independence from Great Britain. Virginian Thomas Jefferson, later the third president of the United States, was chosen to write it. But did he write every word? Did anyone help him? What are the differences between his first draft and the document signed by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776? Readers will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.4 MICChee, Alexander
Summary: "From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring how we form our identities in life, in politics, and in art" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 CHESaunders, George
Summary: "In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word SaundersVanderwarker, Tony.
Summary: "The true story of an author mentored by John Grisham in the art of writing a thriller"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014