Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me
National Book Award winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently
The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon
Narrated by the voice of a once in a generation Twitter account GuyInYourMFA a handbook for the wannabe literary elite and those who laugh at them all illustrated by a New Yorker cartoonist.Who better than that unjustifiably overconfident guy in your MFA to mansplain the most important aka white
Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style
The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and listeners written by Kurt Vonnegut s former student Here is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing Of course, he has given us glimpses in his aphorisms,
Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity
An instant New York Times bestseller In Embrace Your Weird, New York Times bestselling author, producer, actress, TV writer, and award winning web series creator, Felicia Day takes you on a journey to find, rekindle, or expand your creative passions Including Felicia s personal stories and hard won
Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger
A rich, nuanced exploration of women s anger from a diverse group of writers Women are angry, and from the MeToo movement to the record number of women running for political office, they re finally expressing it But all rage isn t created equal Who gets to be angry If there s now space for cis
Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
Making something beautiful in a broken world can be harrowing work, and it can t be done alone Over the last twenty years, Andrew Peterson has performed thousands of concerts, published four novels, released ten albums, taught college and seminary classes on writing, founded a nonprofit ministry
Ordinary Hazards
This powerful story, told with the music of poetry and the blade of truth, will help your heart grow Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak and Shout A testimony and a triumph Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the
No Map, Great Trip: A Young Writer's Road to Page One
Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman reflects on his childhood with his award winning father, Sid Fleischman, and details his own path to becoming a writer in this memorable book that is part memoir, part travelogue, and part reflection on craft and creativity No Map, Great Trip is an excellent choice
Essays One
A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short fiction writer Lydia DavisLydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare Jonathan Franzen has called her a magician of self consciousness, while Rick Moody hails her as the best prose stylist in
Friend or Fiction
One creative middle schooler schooler discovers that the best friend a girl can have is the one she makes herself in this charming magical realism read Jade s life hasn t exactly been normal lately, especially since her dad s cancer diagnosis Jade wishes her family could leave their no name town
Who is the Mystery Reader?
From Mo Willems, creator of the revolutionary, award winning, best selling Elephant Piggie books, comes this breakout beginning reader series An ensemble cast of Squirrels, Acorns, and pop in guests host a page turning extravaganza Each book features a funny, furry adventure AND bonus jokes,
The Hero: The Enduring Myth That Makes Us Human
In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human He demonstrates how hero stories continue to shape our world arguing
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
The instant 1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller A must read for anyone hoping to live a creative life I dare you not to be inspired to be brave, to be free, and to be curious PopSugar From the worldwide bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls the path to the vibrant, fulfilling life
The Grammarians
The Grammarians are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words They speak a secret twin tongue of their own as toddlers as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always
Bunny
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn t be of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England s Warren University A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort a