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Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, in pencil school, a brave little red pencil sets out to write an exciting story with nouns and adverbs and everything--but first she has to face the ravenous pencil sharpener, the Wolf 3000.
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It's the end of summer, 2003. George W. Bush has recently declared the mission in Iraq accomplished and the unemployment rate is at its highest level in years. Meanwhile, somewhere in the Midwest, Troy Augustus Loudermilk (fair-haired, statuesque, charismatic) and his companion Harry Rego (definitely none of those things) step out of a silver Land Cruiser and onto the campus of The Seminars, America's most prestigious creative writing program, to...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"For students and writers alike, a brilliant guide to the craft of writing by the National Book Award-winning author of Spartina. National Book Award winner John Casey is a masterful novelist who is also an inspiring and beloved teacher. In Beyond the First Draft he offers essential and original insights into the art of writing-and rewriting-fiction. Through anecdotes about other writers' methods and habits (as well as his own) and close readings...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools and practical advice needed to write a novel in a single year. In this complementary follow up, Mosley guides the reader through the fundamental building blocks of fiction to deliver a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of conversational and instructive chapters, Mosley breaks down the art of fiction to its most...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"In The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies takes up an often discussed yet frequently misunderstood subject. He begins by addressing the invisibility of revision--even though it's an essential part of the writing process, readers typically only see a final draft, leaving the practice shrouded in mystery. Davies also looks beyond literature to work that has been adapted or rewritten, such as books made into films, stories rewritten by...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Shares the author's travels with the late David Foster Wallace based on interviews from the 1996 "Infinite Jest" book tour, covering such topics as Wallace's literary process, struggles with fame, and battle with mental illness.
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Français
Description
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy's intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of twenty poems written in tribute to well-known poets from around the world.
"With this book, you can travel through time and space by using an unexpected tool: poetry. Instead of the same old poems that have been used in countless classrooms, Out of Wonder offers you poems about 20 different poets from throughout history and around the world. Here you’ll find odes to long-departed poets (like Persian mystic Rumi and haiku...
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