As the main spoken language of the Jews for more than a thousand years, Yiddish has had plenty to lament, plenty to conceal. Its phrases and expressions paint a comprehensive picture of the...
What 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 Works, the first book-length essay...
How many people would kill to be a bestselling novelist-especially one like Janet Evanovich? Using a witty Q&A format, Evanovich and creative writing professor Ina Yalof detail the elements of...
This collection contains live recordings of two 90-minute workshops on creative writing: 1) "Writing Your First Novel" by James Magnuson, and 2) "How To Write Historical Fiction" by Roberta Gellis.
This collection contains live recordings of two 90-minute workshops on creative writing: 1) "Thickening the Plot" by Carolyn Banks, and 2) "Finding Your Literary Voice" by Benjamin Alire Saenz.
Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, she explores this legacy, as well as American circumstances, and finds ways to honor the past while...
Everyone has come to love the impeccable Jeeves and the inimitable Bertie. But what of their creator, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, whose ninety-three years produced a volume of work "unsurpassed in...
Stein on Writing provides immediately useful advice for writers of fiction and nonfiction, whether newcomers or accomplished professionals. As Sol Stein, renowned editor, author, and instructor,...
VocabuLearn Level Two presents an expanded vocabulary and additional expressions designed to further increase comprehension and improve pronunciation of the foreign language.
Your writing, and your life, will be good and get better if you just take it word by word, says Anne Lamott in this live seminar recording that won a 1997 Audie Award for Best Educational/How-to...
