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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Poet and novelist Helen Humphreys's And a Dog Called Fig, a meditation on the benefits of dogs to the creative life, including the dogs of well-known writers from history, portraits of all the dogs from the author's life, and the arrival and raising of her new puppy"--
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America's finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All six of these men were alcoholics, and the subject of drinking surfaces in some of their finest work, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to A Moveable Feast. Often, they did their drinking together:...
8) Escribe tu vida: el placer de narrarte : un viaje íntimo con 16 etapas y 60 ejercicios inspiradores
Author
Publisher
Terapias Verdes
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Este libro está pensado y diseñado como si fuese una guía de viaje. En este caso el viaje es la escritura de tu propia vida, y contiene estrategias escenciales, confesiones de escritores emblemáticos, técnicas del oficio, de modo qu crees tus propias reglas y lo escribas a tu manera. Escribe tu vida es escribir sobre uno mismo o una misma, ya sea para la creción literaria o para ti. Está compuesto por dieciséis etapas o paradas, distrubuidas...
Author
Publisher
Trinity University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When you stray from a trail and strike out into the woods, you are bushwhacking. The term implies a physical thrashing about-pushing past branches, slicing through thickets, leaping across downed trees-but it also implies a certain fortitude and resilience to seek places unknown. In Bushwhacking, Jennifer McGaha borrows the term, likening it to what writers do when faced with the equally daunting blank page. Exploring the wilderness of your inner...
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of original essays by fifty major American writers on one hundred essential short stories. 'A writer,' Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, 'is a reader who is moved to emulation.' That idea inspired New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist Andre Dubus III to invite fifty acclaimed authors to write about the precise alchemy of emulation, about short stories that altered their view of life and their place in it-short stories...
Author
Publisher
Morehouse Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Harmoniously blending actionable advice and spiritual insight, a renowned writing mentor gives women the tools they need to discover their voice-and themselves-on the page. Step into an extraordinary voyage of self-discovery with Robin Finn's life-altering guide. Crafted with the female experience at its core, this transformative compendium unlocks the keys to individual expression within all of us. Beginning with HEART, readers engage with an empowering...
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