Writers | Writers
Jan.22.2013
Twenty of America's bestselling authors share tricks, tips, and secrets of the successful writing life.
Anyone who's ever sat down to write a novel or even a story knows how exhilarating and heartbreaking writing can be. So what makes writers stick with it? In Why We Write, twenty well-known...
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Aug.21.2012
What is your writing path? Are you a warrior called to write with courage for truth and justice? A mystic who writes to commune with the Divine? A shaman who journeys into dark realms and returns with healing knowledge? A monk, who finds peace in the meditative silence of writing? Or some of all...
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Dec.06.2011
What's a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what's contemporary culture supposed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the "white elephant" role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing...
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Feb.19.2010
"Diana Raab... has done such a sensitive job of gathering these diverse, eloquent, and experienced voices and encouraging their thoughtful, heartbreaking, rambunctious, free flights of testimony and speculation into being. Freedom is a frequent theme in these pages. The freedom to try out things,...
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Nov.03.2009
A complete review of the modern publishing process, this resource is an ideal companion for aspiring authors who want to understand and break into this ever-changing industry. Featuring information from a robust roster of literary agents, editors, authors, and insiders-including Random House Editor...
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Mar.07.2009
The Harlem Renaissance remains exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 21st Century for the same reason that the many people who lived it found it exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 20th Century. Despite the soul-crushing challenges of war, racism...
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Mar.04.2009
The American Poet Who Went Home Again is a book of creative nonfiction that blends memoir, literary journalism, history, and biography to tell the story of one writer’s rediscovery of his family, his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, and himself.
Just like modern literary life, the book expands...
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Feb.19.2009
It’s a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons, edited by Andrea J. Buchanan, features 30 essays exploring “boy-ness” and the mother-son relationship. Taking on topics from aggression (”The Bully’s Mother”) to mothering a teenaged boy (”Shapeshifter”) to wishing for a daughter but getting a son (”...
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Nov.07.2008
"Meant to be used as a tool for delving into the subconscious to unearth the archetypes which define character and story." Jeffrey M. Freedman, Writer, Consulting Producer, Vivaldi
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Jan.05.2008
From the Publisher
Nothing gets Eleanor Samuels's heart racing like a double scoop of mocha fudge chunk. Sure, the magazine writer may have some issues aside from food, but she isn't quite ready to face them. Then her beloved Uncle Benny falls ill, and what at first seems scary and daunting becomes...
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