In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri; Ann Goldstein (Translator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
In Other Words is at heart a love story - of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession- that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although La ...Show more
Silent Woman by J. Malcolm
$24.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Janet Malcolm has produced a brilliant, elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography, in which she takes as her example the various biographies of the poet Sylvia Plath. "The Silent Woman" is an astonishing feat of criticism and literary detection. It is not a book about the life of Sylvia Plat ...Show more
Last Night's Reading - Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors by Kate Gavino
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Irresistible illustrations of authors and the charming, wise and hilarious things they say at their readings. At every book reading Kate Gavino attends, she hand-letters the event's most memorable quote alongside a charming portrait of the author. In Last Night's Reading, Kate takes us on her journey th ...Show more
Usage & Abusage by Eric Partridge
$9.95 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Popular Penguins
Usage and Abusage is Penguin's classic linguistic reference book that not only tells you how to use English correctly, but is also a declaration of war on its misuse. Covering grammatical problems, words that are commonly abused and confused, matters of style, as well as providing advice on how to commu ...Show more
Why Read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
A “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece—from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea One of the greatest American novels finds its perfect contemporary champion in Why Read Moby-Dick?, Nathaniel Philbrick’s enlightening and entertaining tour throug ...Show more
Between You and Me - Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
$23.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
The most irreverent and enjoyable book on language since Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Mary Norris has spent more than three decades guarding the New Yorker's grand traditions of grammar and usage. Now she brings her vast experience and sharpened pencil to help the rest of us, in a charming language book as ...Show more
One Continuous Mistake by Gail Sher
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Arkana S.
Based on the Zen philosophy that we learn more from our failures than from our successes, "One Continuous Mistake" teaches a refreshing new method for writing as spiritual practice. In this unique guide for writers of all levels, Gail Sher
Fair Dinkum! Aussie Slang by H. G. Nelson
$20.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Australian slang unites the true blue and the dinky-di and separates the cheeky little possums from the happy little Vegemites. When we use slang, we're connecting with the diggers in the villages of France ordering a vin blanc ('plonk') and the Indigenous Dharug-speakers of Sydney locating one another ...Show more
The Right to Write by Julia Cameron
$28.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
What if everything we have been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron's most revolutionary book, the author of the bestselling self-help guide The Artist's Way, asserts that conventional writing wisdom would have you believe in a false doctrine that stifles creat ...Show more
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Prof. Harold Bloom
$45.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
Hailed as 'the indispensable critic' by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. In The Daemon Knows, he turns his attention to the writers of his own national lite ...Show more
How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco
$38.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, How to Write a The ...Show more
On Writing by Charles Bukowski
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Category: On Writing
'If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him ...There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be ...Show more