Burn This Book by Toni Morrison
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Category: On Writing | Series: Pen Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word
In "Witness: The Inward Testimony" Nadine Gordimer discusses the role of the writer as observer, and as someone who sees 'what is really taking place'. She looks to Proust, Oe, Flaubert, Graham Green to see how their philosophy squares with her own, ultimately concluding 'Literature has been and remains ...Show more
My Unwritten Books by George Steiner
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Category: On Writing
In this fiercely original and audacious work, George Steiner tells of seven books which he did not write. Because intimacies and indiscretions were too threatening. Because the topic brought too much pain. Because its emotional or intellectual challenge proved beyond his capacities. The actual themes ...Show more
The Tent by Margaret Atwood
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Category: On Writing
One of the world's most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has written a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her previous books, "Good Bones" and "Murder in the Dark". Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, these highly imaginative tales tack ...Show more
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil and Colm Toibin
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Category: On Writing
For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil, there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, and compelling. In their selection of the best 200 novels written since 1950, the editors make a case for the best and the best-loved works and arg ...Show more
The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom
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Category: On Writing
'Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it', writes Harold Bloom in "The Anatomy of Influence", 'is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate'. For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of the written word with students and readers. In this, h ...Show more
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale
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Category: On Writing
Bruno Littlemore; linguist, artist, philosopher. A life defined by a soaring mind, yet bound by a restrictive body. Born in down-town Chicago, Bruno's precocity pulls him from an unremarkable childhood, and under the tuition of Lydia, his intellect dazzles a watching world. But when falls in love with h ...Show more
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett
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Category: On Writing
This title includes unexpected tales from the master of short fiction. The Shielding of Mrs Forbes - Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. And her own husband would be better if she were mourning him than living with him. But ...Show more
Shooting the Fox by Marion Halligan
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Category: On Writing
"Why did Bluebeard kill his wives? Because that's what he did. It's a given. It's the plot. Until the lucky one, who is saved. The even more interesting question is: why did Mrs Bluebeard feel utterly unable to resist opening the door? Don't we all think, when it comes to these stories, that we'd have m ...Show more
Troika Dolls by Miranda Darling
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Category: On Writing
Meet Stevie Duveen: striking, brilliant, gifted in seven languages and all kinds of combat - and strategic analyst for Hazard Ltd, an international trouble-shooting outfit specialising in discreet and very dangerous missions. Surprise is her most effective weapon, apart from her fierce intellect, unflag ...Show more
Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling
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Category: On Writing
Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign, but felt as at home as her Chinese companions. She ran free on the grave-littered grasslands behind her house, often stumbling across the tiny bones of ba ...Show more
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
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Category: On Writing
This is Francis Fukuyama's most important book since the pathbreaking "End of History". Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take ...Show more
The Good of the Novel by Liam McIlvanney; Ray Ryan
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Category: On Writing
There remains at work - in both Britain and America - a group of literary journalists and academics committed to the evaluative criticism of fiction, to a criticism that approaches novels as novels. The Good of the Novel is a collection of specially commissioned essays - edited by Ray Ryan and LIam McIl ...Show more