Anne Lamott For a quarter century, more than a million readers—scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities—have been inspired by Anne Lamott’s hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins...

Richard Russo "I've written a lot about destiny in my fiction," admits Richard Russo, "not because I understand it, but because I'd like to." In the first of these eleven...

Author: Paula Balzer There's more to writing a memoir than just writing your life story.A memoir isn't one long diary entry. Rather, it's a well-crafted story about a crucial, often...

Author: Linda Joy Myers Linda Joy Myers, PhD A groundbreaking work for healing long-term emotional problemsThe Power of Memoir is a pioneering how-to book that provides a new step-by-step program to...

Author: Betsy Lerner " The Forest for the Trees  should become a permanent part of any writer's or editor's personal library. " - The Seattle TimesQuickly established as an essential...

Author: Steven Pinker "Steven Pinker, the bestselling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st centuryWhat...

David Lodge Essays gathered from the Washington Post and the London Independent examine the art and artistry of some of the best writers working in the English language, covering such...

James WoodWhat makes a story a story? What is style? What’s the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction...

Harry Blamires Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel...

Jon Ronson   An award-winning journalist offers an intriguing and timely study of extremists around the world and the conspiracy theory that links them, offering meticulously rendered profiles of a...

Chinese Medicine for Maximum Immunity: Understanding the Five Elemental Types for Health and WEll-BeingJason Elias, LAc and Katherine KetchamReflecting on the connection between the rise in chronic immune disorders and...

Margaret AtwoodWhat is the role of the Writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career,...