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

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

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

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 classic work on semantics -- now fully revised and updated -- distills the relationship between language and those who use it.

In The Power of Point of View, RITA Award-winning author Alicia Rasley first teaches you the fundamentals of point of view (POV)–who is speaking, why, and what options work best within the conventions of your chosen genre.

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

At once a practical guide to research methodology and an elegant literary reflection on the challenges of writing history, this uniquely rich volume demonstrates how surrendering to the archive’s allure can forever change how we ...

Childress looks at how books get selected for the front tables in bookstores, why reviewers and readers can draw such different meanings from the same novel, and how book groups across the country make sense of a novel and what it means to ...

Here the master storytellers Geoffrey Ward, Ken Burns, and Dayton Duncan give us the first fully illustrated biography of Mark Twain, American literature's touchstone, its funniest and most inventive figure.".