New York: Grove Press, Inc., 2013. Barry Blitt (cover design and illustration). Reprint. Paperback. From Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of Devotion and Slow Motion, comes a witty, heartfelt, and practical look at the exhilarating and challenging process of storytelling. At once a memoir, a meditation on the artistic process, and..... More
London: Harvill Secker, 2018. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and dated by author. Luck, good or bad, plays an important part in a writer’s career. In 1976 Lodge was pursuing a ‘twin-track career’ as novelist and academic but the balancing act was increasingly difficult, and he became..... More
New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1985. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her..... More
New York: Warner Books, 1985. Max Ginsburg (cover art). First Warner Books Edition. First Printing. Paperback. More
Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, Ltd, 1973. Reprint. Softcover. More
London: Penguin Books, 2004. Alister Hall (cover artwork). Reprint. Paperback. Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell's timeless, uncompromising essays are more relevant, entertaining and essential than ever in today's era of spin. More
New York: Abrams Comicarts, 2020. Grant Snider (illustrations). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. It’s no secret, but we are judged by our bookshelves. We learn to read at an early age, and as we grow older we shed our beloved books for new ones. But some of us surround ourselves..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2005. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Smiley explores–as no novelist has before her–the unparalleled intimacy of reading, why a novel succeeds (or doesn’t), and how the novel has changed over time. She describes a novelist as “right on the cusp between someone who knows everything..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. Third Edition. Paperback. The Seagull Reader: Essays brings together a mix of 56 essays--13 new to the Third Edition--by a variety of writers, from established authors (Dwight Eisenhower, David Brooks, and Barbara Ehrenreich) and rising voices (Atul Gawande and Ta-Nehisi Coates) to authors..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. Sixth Edition. Paperback. More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. Sixth Edition. Paperback. More
New York: Atria Paperback, 2019. Reprint. Paperback. From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder. Full of fresh and exciting insights, Making Your Own Days illuminates the somewhat mysterious subject..... More
Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1992. Reprint. Paperback. Rudestam and Newton provide readers with expert advice on the entire dissertation process; selecting a suitable topic, conducting a review of the literature, building an argument, presenting the material, presenting data and results and managing data overload, methods for developing appropriate writing skills..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. In an intimate and intriguing memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove recounts his lifelong love affair with books, from his largely "bookless" boyhood and discovery of literature as a young man, to the evolution of his writing career and..... More
New York: Counterpoint, 2003. Trade Paperback. For nearly 50 years, Lillian Ross has been writing remarkable literary journalism for The New Yorker. Her unerring Talk pieces and her incisive profiles have won her a legion of admirers. Many credit The New Yorker for inspiring the refinement of literary journalism, and..... More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1986. Paperback. The essential guide to refining and improving grammar – from the basics of sentence structure to the art of composing written works. A concise, comprehensive handbook of the basic rules of grammar and usage that presents invaluable tips on how to implement these..... More
New York: Scribner, 1996. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Correspondence between Ernest Hemingway and his longtime editor, Maxwell Perkins. More
New York: Aperture Foundation, 2018. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Softcover. Why did Henri Cartier-Bresson nearly have a posthumous exhibition while still alive? What led Stephen Shore to work with color? Why was Sophie Calle accused of stealing Vermeer’s The Concert? And what is Susan Meiselas’s take on Instagram and..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. First Paperback Edition, Second Printing. Rare signed edition. Whether talking about her own writing, interpreting the works of others, or giving us a window on the world that "we in South Africa are attempting to reconstruct," Nadine Gordimer has much to tell us about the..... More
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively consideration of writings that have "made things happen" in the world, works that..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990. First Edition (presumed), Second Printing. Softcover. Challenging the widely-held belief that autobiography is a unique product of the West, Pei-yi Wu demonstrates that writing about the self did thrive in one non-Western civilization. The pages of this first full-length treatment of Chinese autobiography teem..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2016. Charlie Louth (tr.). First Penguin Classics Edition. Eighth Printing. Paperback. 'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.' A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Jiom McLean. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Melbourne: Pitman Publishing, 1997. First Edition. Eighth Printing. Softcover. More
Hoboken, New Jersey: Melville House Publishing, 2007. Carol Haynes (cover design). First Melville House Printing. Paperback. The twenty-sixth book of fiction by the award-winning Baltimore writer sets up a situation that the protagonist-Meyer, a prolific fiction writer from Baltimore-finds preposterous: writer's block. After numerous books, Meyer has never experienced writer's..... More
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