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  1. Burning Boy : The Life and Work of Stephen Crane

    Auster, Paul
    Henry Holt and Co. 2021

    A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography...

  2. Summer Sons

    Mandelo, Lee
    Tor Publishing Group 2021

    Lee Mandelo's debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted by a hungry ghost. Andrew and Eddi...

  3. Pop Song : Adventures in Art & Intimacy

    Pham, Larissa
    Catapult 2021

    "A warm and expansive portrait of a woman’s mind that feels at once singular and universal," this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life, feminism, art, and sex...

  4. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain : In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

    Saunders, George
    Random House Publishing Group 2021

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and wh...

  5. Being Lolita : A Memoir

    Wood, Alisson
    Macmillan Audio 2020 Unabridged

    This program is read by the author. A dark romance evolves between a high schooler and her English teacher in this breathtakingly powerful memoir about a young woman who must learn...

  6. Toni Morrison : The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

    MELVILLE HOUSE
    Melville House 2020

    “Knowledge is what’s important, you know?  Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it.” — TONI MORRISON   In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews — inclu...

  7. Happening – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

    Ernaux, Annie
    Fitzcarraldo Editions 2019

    In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failu...

  8. The Source of Self-Regard : Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

    Morrison, Toni
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2019

    Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades.  These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9...

  9. Almost Nothing : The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski

    Karpeles, Eric
    New York Review Books 2018

    A compelling biography of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski that takes readers to Paris in the Roaring Twenties, to the front lines during WWII, and into the late 20th-ce...

  10. My Southern Journey

    Bragg, Rick
    Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2015

    From celebrated New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the south. Keenly o...

  11. Ray Bradbury : The Last Interview and Other Conversations

    Bradbury, Ray; Weller, Sam
    Melville House 2014

    Ray Bradbury was long the most influential sci-fi writer in the world, the poetic and visionary author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrat...

  12. Word Painting Revised Edition : The Fine Art of Writing Descriptively

    Mcclanahan, Rebecca
    Penguin Publishing Group 2014

    Paint Masterful Descriptions on the Page! Writing strong descriptions is an art form, one that you need to carefully develop and practice. The words you choose to describe your cha...

  13. Dragonwriter : A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern

    McCaffrey, Todd
    BenBella Books 2013

    When Anne McCaffrey passed in November 2011, it was not only those closest to her who mourned her death; legions of readers also felt the loss deeply. The pioneering science fictio...

  14. Ender's World : Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender's Game

    Card, Orson Scott; Ian, Janis; Johnston, Aaron
    BenBella Books 2013

    Experience the thrill of reading Ender's Game all over again Go deeper into the complexities of Orson Scott Card's classic novel with science fiction and fantasy writers, YA author...

  15. The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

    Moore, Edward Kelsey
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013

    This diner in Plainview, Indiana is home away from home for Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean. Dubbed "The Supremes" by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s, they've weathered...

  16. Here Be Dragons : Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings

    Ekman, Stefan; Ekman, Stefar
    Wesleyan University Press 2013

    First in-depth study of the use of landscape in fantasy literatureWinner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies (2016) Fantasy worlds are never mere backd...

  17. Shadowhunters and Downworlders : A Mortal Instruments Reader

    Clare, Cassandra
    BenBella Books 2013

    Explore the world of the Mortal Instruments with Cassandra Clare and more Join Cassandra Clare and a Circle of more than a dozen top YA writers, including New York Times bestseller...

  18. Beyond the Wall : Exploring George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, From A Game of Thrones to A Dance with Dragons

    BenBella Books 2012

    Get ready for HBO's Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon prequel series with this exploration of George R.R. Martin's iconic novels The world created by George R.R. Martin in his h...

  19. Elements of Fiction Writing--Characters & Viewpoint : Proven advice and timeless techniques for creating compelling characters by an a ward-winning author

    Card, Orson Scott
    Penguin Publishing Group 2010

    Vivid and memorable characters aren't born: they have to be madeThis book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and...

  20. The Art of Poetry : How to Read a Poem

    Wolosky, Shira
    Oxford University Press 2008 1. edition

    Preface 1. Word Choice 2. Syntax and the Poetic Line 3. Images: Simile and Metaphor 4. Metaphor and the Sonnet 5. The Sonnet 6. Poetic Conventions 7. More Verse Forms 8. Pe...