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Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch-- and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories."--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
x, 390 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"In Soul at the White Heat, Oates deploys her keenest critical faculties, conjuring contemporary and past voices whose work she deftly and creatively dissects for clues to these elusive questions. Virginia Woolf, John Updike, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, J. M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Joan Didion, Zadie Smith, and many others appear as predecessors and peers?material through which Oates sifts in acting as literary detective, philosopher, and student....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
"On a stormy night two hundred years ago, a young woman named Mary waited for inspiration. Her friend, the poet Lord Byron, had challenged her to write a scary story, but no ideas would come. Mary thought back through her life at the eerie things she had seen in her childhood and the losses she had suffered. But nothing was as scary as her own imagination. As she drifted off to sleep, she pictured something monstrous, a creature that was so frightening,...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An artist is driven mad by the sight of his own blood and a drawing of a mouth that seems to come to life. The combination sends him off on a series of bizarre adventures that strive to explain how artists become obsessed with their own works.
5) Make trouble
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
70 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Description
"When John Waters delivered his gleefully subversive advice to the graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design in 2015, the speech went viral, in part because it was so brilliantly on point about making a living as a creative person. From an icon of popular culture, here is inspiring advice for artists, graduates, and anyone seeking happiness and success on their own terms. Now we all can enjoy his sly wisdom in a manifesto that reminds us, no...
Author
Publisher
Berenice
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Description
This book is based on a compelling idea: we can all be writers. Obviously, to get to work, we must develop our skills of observation, reading, dedication, and follow, step by step, certain teachings of great passionate writers who have preceded us. To the question, can anyone be a writer? There ae only two possible answers and Juan Sahagún definitely opts for the following: everyone can... We can all be. We all have endless stories that we want and...
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