Lethem, Jonathan
Summary: "A collection of bestselling, NBCC prize-winning author Jonathan Lethem's finest writing on the subject of writers and writing. A readerly wake-up call from one of America's finest and most acclaimed working writers. Picking up where his NBCC Award finalist collection The Ecstasy of Influence left off, More Alive and Less Lonely collects more than a decade of Lethem's finest writing on writing,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LETSpurgin, Timothy.
Summary: Examines the wonderful feeling of engaging with a novel or short story on all levels and learning how artful readers think about and approach the works they read.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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Tarrant, Graham
Summary: "A light-hearted book about books and the people who write them for all lovers of literature. Do you know: Which famous author died of caffeine poisoning? Why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was banned in China? Who was the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? What superstitions Truman Capote kept whenever he wrote? Who the other Winston Churchill was? A treasure trove of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 TARWalker, Jeff
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Court 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 WALSummary: In 1972 Mark Moskowitz read a New York Times book review of "The stones of summer" by Dow Mossman, a title which, later in Moskowitz's life would later become an object of obsession. Though he shelved the book for 25 years, Moskowitz finally read it and was amazed at its ingenuity. He was shocked that its one-time author never penned another book. Determined to solve the mystery, Moskowitz...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STOChadwick-Joshua, Jocelyn
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.4 CHAGitelman, Lisa.
Summary: Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document. Drawing examples from the 1870s, the 1930s, the 1960s, and today, Lisa Gitelman thinks across the media that the document form has come to inhabit over the last 150 years, including letterpress printing,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2244 GITDorst, Doug
Summary: "A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books 2013