Berlant, Lauren Gail
Summary: In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint--each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long--amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the social and conceptual...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 BERFitzgerald, Michael
Contents: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75) -- Herman Melville (1819-91) -- Lewis Carroll (1832-98) -- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) -- George Orwell (1903-50) -- Bruce Chatwin (1940-89) -- Spinoza (1632-77) -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) -- Simone Weil (1909-43) -- A.J. Ayer (1910-89) -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) -- Ludwig van...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8588 FITCameron, Julia
Summary: "The first new Artist's Way tool in more than 30 years from "the Queen of Change" (New York Times) author Julia Cameron. In the thirty years following the publication of The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron relied on an essential tool to help her through every juncture in life: writing for guidance. Now, in Living the Artist's Way, Cameron finally shares this method with the world as the fourth main...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2024
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 153.3 CAMHarold, Ellie.
Summary: Are you more frustrated that fulfilled in your art-making? Does your creative expression seem blocked? Do you only make art in workshops or classes? Do you want to be something more than a student or dabbler? Does lack of time, space or money prevent you from doing your art? For artists in any media, making art may be the most essential requirement for happiness. Many people, however, do not...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clear Light Press 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 HaroldArrow, Emily
Summary: "Beloved children's entertainer Emily Arrow's first picture book, perfect for (little) makers everywhere: a story about finding a space to create! A young bunny makes the rounds of a studio building, taking in all the different artists in their habitats. Making, thinking, sharing, performing . . . but can our bunny find the perfect space to let imagination shine? In this charming ode to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARRMann, Charles C.
Summary: "1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909.08 MANKunkel, Angela Burke
Summary: "A biography that follows the lives of Robert McCloskey, creator of Make Way for Ducklings, and sculptor Nancy Schön, whose famous bronze ducks grace Boston Public Garden"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Rubin, Rick
Summary: "From the legendary music producer, a savant at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book, many years in the making, that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. "I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." -Rick Rubin Many famed music producers, however...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Pressfield, Steven.
Summary: "In this powerful, straight-from-the-hip examination of the internal obstacles to success, bestselling author Steven Pressfield shows readers how to identify, defeat, and unlock the inner barriers to creativity. The War of Art is an inspirational, funny, well-aimed kick in the pants guaranteed to galvanize every would-be artist, visionary, or entrepreneur."--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Irish Entertainment 2012
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Davis, Danielle
Summary: "A stunning picture book ode to the joys of the creative process and the spirit of collaboration. This lyrical story from Danielle Davis and Mags DeRoma is perfect for fans of Kevin Henkes, Gyo Fujikawa, and Julie Fogliano. To make ... a cake, a garden, a song, you first gather, then make--and wait. To make a story (like this one), you gather, make, wait. To make anything--big or small--it will...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Guralnick, Peter
Summary: "Peter Guralnick's remarkable work... covers old ground from new perspectives, offering deeply felt, masterful, and strikingly personal portraits of creative artists, both musicians and writers, at the height of their powers. "You put the book down feeling that its sweep is vast, that you have read of giants who walked among us," rock critic Lester Bangs wrote of Guralnick's earlier work in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.92 GURSummary: "Set in 1964, Final Portrait is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and world-renowned artist Alberto Giacometti. Lord's perspective reveals a unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes chaos of the artistic process. While on a short trip to Paris, Lord is asked by his friend Giacometti to sit for a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINLondon, Peter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 LondonBennett, Paula.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1986
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Fhilippe, Jean
Summary: "A wildly imaginative fantasy graphic novel about the responsibilities of creation.... Leftstar can't seem to access the world they've been building. They also haven't slept in a long time. These things are almost certainly unrelated, and they should really go get the mail, anyway. But their trip to the post office is interrupted by a curious visitor: an enormous fruit bat. Whisked away in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Sprocket 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FHIFlaherty, Alice.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 FLAGarcía Lorca, Federico
Summary: Poems are in Spanish, and in English translation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 GARBarry, Lynda
Summary: "For more than five years the cartoonist Lynda Barry has been an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison art department and at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teaching students from all majors, both graduate and undergraduate, how to make comics, how to be creative, how to not think. There is no academic lecture in this classroom. Doodling is enthusiastically...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BARMaisel, Eric
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: J.P. Tarcher 1999
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.McLeod, Kembrew
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.0482 MCLMcPhee, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 808 MCPGrogan, Jake
Summary: "A collection of the true stories that inspired 202 of the world's most famous books"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 808.3 GROOliver, Mary
Summary: A collection of essays follows the author as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor; her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her; and the responsibility she has inherited from the great thinkers and writers of the past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 OLILacey, Catherine
Summary: An "illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century ... from Frida Kahlo to Colette to Hemingway to Dali; from Coco Chanel to Stravinsky to Miles Davis to Orson Welles"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017