The author shares his insights into the craft of writing and offers a humorous perspective on his own experience as a writer.

In this exhilarating book, we accompany Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method.

Offers advice on writing creatively, discusses the importance of discipline, and suggests writing exercises.

In an era when communication has become increasingly diverse and complex, this classic work on semantics--now fully revised and updated--distills the relationship between language and those who use it.

In Depression: A Public Feeling, Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and critical essay in search of ways of writing about depression as a cultural and political phenomenon that offer alternatives to medical models.

The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem—the relation between philosophy and politics.

Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to academic writing.

Assembled in Signposts in a Strange Land, these essays on language, literature, philosophy, religion, psychiatry, morality, and life and letters in the South display the imaginative versatility of an author considered by many to be one the ...

By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose. In Reading Like a Writer, Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters.

In The Art of Memoir, master memoirist Mary Karr synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and “black-belt sinner,” providing a unique window into the mechanics and art ...