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Audiobooks. Compact discs. Criticism, interpretation, etc. essay Essays. memoir Nonfiction. Poetry.Oliver, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 OLICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 OLIOates, 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
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 OATSmith, Patti
Summary: "In lyric essays, a story, poems, and photographs, Smith illuminates the whirl of chance and choice that stokes a writer's imagination, recounting her fascination on the eve of a trip to Paris with Simone Weil and an evocative, accidentally discovered film about Stalin's mass deportation of Estonians. In France, a gravestone, a televised figure-skating competition, a meal, and a garden all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 SMIMcPhee, 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