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Burn This Book by Toni Morrison
Category: Languages and Reference | 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
On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda
Category: Culture | Series: Writers on Writers
A passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars--the most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian groups. Combining memoir and appreciation, On Conan Doyle is a highly engaging personal introduction to Hol ...Show more
On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda
Category: unmapped | Series: Writers on Writers
A passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars - the most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian groups. Combining memoir and appreciation, "On Conan Doyle" is a highly engaging personal introduction to ...Show more
On Czeslaw Milosz - Visions from the Other Europe by Eva Hoffman
Category: General Biography | Series: Writers on Writers Ser.
A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Czeslaw Milosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva Hoffman Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature, not least because he lived through and wrote about many of the mo ...Show more
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin
Category: Biography | Series: Writers on Writers
In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences-the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Toibin creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how h ...Show more
On Henry Miller - Or, How to Be an Anarchist by John Burnside
Category: Biography | Series: Writers on Writers Ser.
An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller--and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape "the air-conditioned nightmare" of the modern world The American writer Henry Miller's critical reputation--if not his popular readership--has been in eclipse at least since Kate Millett's b ...Show more
On Patrick White: Writers on Writers by Christos Tsiolkas
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Writers on Writers
'Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound ...Show more
On Robyn Davidson: Writers on Writers by Richard Cooke
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Writers on Writing
Robyn Davidson, author of the classic memoir Tracks, has led a remarkable life of writing and nomadic travel. In this crisp, erudite essay, acclaimed critic and journalist Richard Cooke explores Davidson's relationship with place and freedom, and her singular presence in Australian letters.In the Writer ...Show more
On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Writers on Writers Ser.
A vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time whe ...Show more
On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster
Category: Poetry | Series: Writers on Writers Ser.
A vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time whe ...Show more
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Writers on Writers
When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie - Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith - often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated by ...Show more
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