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

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

Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, Ltd, 1973. Reprint. Softcover. More

New York: Roundtable Press, 1994. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. A how-to guide for writing personal and business correspondence. 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

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. Sixth Edition. Paperback. 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

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

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

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Jiom McLean. First Edition. Hardcover. 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

New York: Ballantine Books, 2003. First Edition (stated). First Printing. Hardcover. In Sometimes the Magic Works, New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks shares his secrets for creating unusual, memorable fiction. Spanning topics from the importance of daydreaming to the necessity of writing an outline, from the fine art of..... More