Featured authors include russell baker on growing up; jill Ker Conway on The Road from Coorain; Annie Dillard on An American Childhood; Ian Frazier on Family; Henry Louis Gates Jr. An indispensable book by writers who have experienced firsthand the rewards and challenges of crafting a memoir Anyone undertaking the project of writing a memoir knows that the events, memories, and emotions of the past often resist the orderly structure of a book.
On colored people; alfred kazin on a walker in the city; Frank McCourt on Angela's Ashes; Toni Morrison on Beloved; and Eileen Simpson on Poets in Their Youth.
Writing About Your Life: A Journey into the Past
An ingeniously constructed teaching memoir from the author of the bestselling On Writing Well -- "You learn without knowing it. Frank mccourt, and humor, warmth, author of angela's asheswritten with elegance, this highly original "teaching memoir" by William Zinsser--renowned bestselling author of On Writing Well gives you the tools to organize and recover your past, and the confidence to believe in your life narrative.
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Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art, Second Edit
No student of memoir writing could fail to learn from this wise, pragmatic, and confiding book. Used book in Good Condition. She is the author of three volumes of poetry: Trying to Be an Honest Woman, History and Geography, and Horses and the Human Soul forthcoming in 2002. Her nimble prose, her deep belief in the importance of this genre, and her delight in the rich array of memoirists writing today make this book more than the typical "how-to" creative writing book.
She has taught creative writing for the past twenty years. An appendix provides information on legal issues. Judith barrington, is attuned to the forces, an award-winning memoir writer and acclaimed writing teacher, both external and internal, that work to stop a writer; her tone is respectful of the difficulties and encouraging of taking risks.
Since writing the memoir came out in early 1997 it has sold roughly 80, 000 copies and is consistently praised as "the best book on memoir out there. It is thought-provoking, explanatory, and practical: each chapter ends with writing exercises.
The Art of Memoir
Joining such classics as stephen king’s on writing and anne lamott’s Bird by Bird, The Art of Memoir is an elegant and accessible exploration of one of today’s most popular literary forms—a tour de force from an accomplished master pulling back the curtain on her craft. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.
For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning teaching prizes at Syracuse. The writing program there produced such acclaimed authors as Cheryl Strayed, Keith Gessen, and Koren Zailckas. In the art of memoir, ” providing a unique window into the mechanics and art of the form that is as irreverent, recovered alcoholic and “black belt sinner, insightful, writer and spiritual seeker, she synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, and entertaining as her own work in the genre.
Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers’ experience, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr’s own process. Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. Hc 360
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
This book, which grew out of fifteen years teaching in MFA programs, is itself a model of the lucid inteligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of ninfiction. In a story or a novel the "i" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth.
How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks--and answers. In it, she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own.
Used book in Good Condition. Farrar Straus Giroux. A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of LoveAll narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom.
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
With more than a million copies sold, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valuable resource for writers and would-be writers. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet.
Farrar Straus Giroux. Hc 360 Used book in Good Condition.
Writing To Learn
Writing Places: The Life Journey of a Writer and Teacher
In writing places, he delightfully recalls the many colorful and amusing locations where he has worked and taught. Farrar Straus Giroux. HarperCollins Publishers.
The Kiss: A Memoir
A story both of transgression and of family complicity in breaking taboo, The Kiss is also about love—about the most primal of love triangles, the one that ensnares a child between mother and father.
The Writer Who Stayed
HarperCollins Publishers. His 17 other books range from memoir writing places to travel American Places, jazz Mitchell & Ruff, American popular song Easy to Remember, baseball Spring Training and the craft of writing Writing to Learn. During the 1970s he was at yale university, where he was master of Branford College and taught the influential nonfiction workshop that would start many writers and editors on their careers.
Try it and see. Try him and see craftsmanship. George F. Adapted from "zinsser on friday, author of the best-selling on writing Well and many other books, " The American Scholar's National Magazine Award–Winning Essay SeriesFor nineteen months William Zinsser, wrote a weekly column for the website of the American Scholar magazine.
They're now in a collection that's completely charming, impeccably polished, and Strunk-and-White-ishly brief. This cornucopia was devoted mainly to culture and the arts, along with the movies, baseball, Steve Martin, multitasking, Pauline Kael, and travels to remote places, American popular song, the craft of writing, Tina Brown, Central Park, email, and other complications of modern life.
He has taught at the new school, his hometown, in New York, and at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Growing Up
His is a story of adversity and courage, the poignancy of love and the awkwardness of sex, of family bonds and family tensions. Used book in Good Condition. We meet the people who influenced baker’s early life: his strong and loving mother, his bold little sister Doris, the awesome matriarch Ida Rebecca and her twelve sons.
Hc 360 Russell baker’s pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography about growing up in America during the Great Depression. HarperCollins Publishers. Magical…. He has taken such raw, so likable, potentially wrenching material and made of it a story so warm, and so disarmingly funny…a work of original biographical art.
The new york times in this heartfelt memoir, groundbreaking Pulitzer-winning New York Times columnist Russell Baker traces his youth from the backwoods mountains of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the Depression-shadowed landscape of Baltimore. Farrar Straus Giroux.