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2) Devotion
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In lyric essays, a story, poems, and photographs, Smith illuminates the whirl of chance and choice that stokes a writer's imagination, recounting her fascination on the eve of a trip to Paris with Simone Weil and an evocative, accidentally discovered film about Stalin's mass deportation of Estonians. In France, a gravestone, a televised figure-skating competition, a meal, and a garden all converge in what becomes Devotion, [a] ... fairy tale about...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"In A Solemn Pleasure, Melissa Pritchard presents an undeniable case for both the power of language and the nurturing constancy of the writing life. This is nonfiction vividly engaged with the world, encompassing the author's journeys into the deeply interior imaginative life required to write fiction, a search for the lost legacy of American literature as embodied by Walt Whitman, reports from Afghanistan while embedded with a young female GI, tales...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work,...
5) Square
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his friend Circle asks him to do her portrait after praising him as a sculptor and genius, Square struggles to carve her likeness from a stone block.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Things are scary right now. We're all being swept along by a tidal wave of history, and it's easy to feel helpless. But we're not helpless: we have minds, and imaginations, and the ability to visualize other worlds and valiant struggles. And writing can be an act of resistance that reminds us that other futures and other ways of living are possible. Full of memoir, personal anecdote, and insight about how to flourish during the present emergency,...
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
174 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inspiring insights on effective, artful writing from a beloved author, whose insights will resonate with writers, artists, musicians, craftspersons, and anyone drawn to creative pursuits"--
Author
Publisher
dpunkt
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
1. Auflage.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (310 pages)
Language
Deutsch
Description
Sean Tuckers The meaning in the making hat sich international bislang über 8000x verkauft. Was sein Buch so packend macht, ist nicht nur der Schreibstil des begabten Redners und ehemaligen Pastors Tucker, sondern der breite Horizont zwischen Psychologie, Philosophie und Kunstgeschichte, den er in den 14 Kapiteln aufmacht und immer wieder mit seiner eigenen Biografie verknüpft. Was Tucker auf seinem Weg vom Musiker, Pastor und Kellner zum für...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1988, Eric Cho, an aspiring writer, arrives at Macalester College. On his first day he meets a beautiful fledgling painter, Jessica Tsai, and another would-be novelist, the larger-than-life Joshua Yoon. Brilliant, bawdy, generous, and manipulative, Joshua alters the course of their lives, rallying them together when they face an adolescent act of racism. As adults in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the three friends reunite as the 3AC, the Asian American...
13) Make good art
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A passionate and inspiring guide to creating a life built around the creative process.
This groundbreaking new work from the bestselling author of The Artist's Way, guides readers in creating a vision for their lives in which art and life are inextricably linked. According to Julia Cameron, when we allow our creative spirit to serve as our compass, we discover that the art we have always longed to create is suddenly within our...
This groundbreaking new work from the bestselling author of The Artist's Way, guides readers in creating a vision for their lives in which art and life are inextricably linked. According to Julia Cameron, when we allow our creative spirit to serve as our compass, we discover that the art we have always longed to create is suddenly within our...
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"What inspires you? That's the simple, but profound question more than forty renowned authors answer in LIGHT THE DARK. Each author picks a favorite passage--from a novel, a song, a poem--to reveal what gets them started and keeps them going doing the creative work they love. From there, incredible stories of life changing encounters with art emerge, like how sneaking a volume of Stephen King stories into his job as a night security guard helped Khaled...
17) How much joy can you stand?: a creative guide to facing your fears and making your dreams come true
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Revised , updated. ; first Ballantine Wellspring edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 192 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
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