In Ballast to the White Sea is Malcolm Lowry’s most ambitious work of the mid-1930s. Inspired by his life experience, the novel recounts the story of a Cambridge undergraduate who aspires to be a writer but has come to believe that both...
Authorship
- Author:Lowry, Malcolm, McCarthy, Patrick A., Ackerley, Chris, Doyen, Vik, Mota, Miguel, Tiessen, PaulSummary:
- Author:Birney, Betty G.Summary:
Humphrey's eleventh adventure celebrates stories, writing, and the power of the imagination! Imaginations are running wild in Mrs. Brisbane's class, but Humphrey is stumped. His friends are writing about where they would go if...
- Author:Chee, AlexanderSummary:
Alexander Chee presents a manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him. In these essays, he grows from student to teacher,...
- Author:Jennings, SharonSummary:
My name is Lee Mets (honest), and this is my book I’m part of the writing club, which is fantastic, since what I want to be most is a writer. My mother says that girls don’t grow up to be writers, they can only be nurses or teachers....
- Author:Samson-Legault, DanielSummary:
Professionnels, apprentis et amateurs apprécieront ce guide de rédaction, fruit de nombreuses années d’expérience de formation et d’activités professionnelles que leur propose le formateur et communicateur chevronné, Daniel Samson-...
- Author:Cognard-Black, JenniferSummary:
While short stories exist in traditions all over the world, Americanshort stories are a genre all their own. Emerging from the clash of cultures--and the collision of oral and print traditions--that began during the arrival of European...
- Author:Cabot, Meg.Summary:
Although she has recently completed a 400-page romance novel, Princess Mia, in her last month of high school, has yet to pick a college, find a prom dress, or decide if her boyfriend J. P. is really The One.
- Author:Phillips, WendySummary:
When Natalie moves to a new high school she befriends 3 unwitting victims into her spider-web of manipulations, lies and deceit. Through the poetry and assignments of an English class we glimpse the world of the 4 teens. Natalie, whose...
- Author:Rowell, RainbowSummary:
In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life--and she's really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the...
- Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary:
Emily Starr is orphaned after her father dies and is sent to live with her snobbish Aunt Elizabeth at New Moon Farms. It is not long before she starts to make new friends, and slowly grows to love her new family and the amazing New Moon...
- Author:Younging, GregorySummary:
Elements of Indigenous Style provides guidelines to help writers, editors, and publishers produce material that reflects Indigenous people in an appropriate and respectful manner. Gregory Younging, a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation...
- Author:Smith, PattiSummary:
Based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University, artist and author Patti Smith explores the nature of creative invention...
- Author:Pipar , RosetteSummary:
Un récit intimiste authentique Ce livre est l'histoire authentique d'une femme de 50 ans qui se questionne sur les raisons qui l'ont empêchée de se consacrer à l'écriture et à ses autres passions artistiques qui l'habitent depuis sa...
- Author:Myers, Walter DeanSummary:
Two best friends, a writer and a runner, deal with bullies, family issues, social pressures, and their quest for success coming out of Harlem.
- Author:Palahniuk, ChuckSummary:
Novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling.
- Author:Jennings, SharonSummary:
After years of being passed around to various relatives, Cassandra Jovanovich has found a home where she feels she belongs. All she wants to do is forget her past and pursue her dream of becoming an actress. But her new friend, Leanna...
- Author:Kate, LaurenSummary:
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate comes an enemies-to-lovers romance about an editor, her bestselling author, and one life-changing secret. What she doesn't know about love could fill a book. With a successful...
- Author:Warland, BetsySummary:
Twelve years in the making, Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing is a must-read for students of creative writing. This collection is comprised of two sets of twelve essays each. "Materials" reflects on the history...
- Author:Febos, MelissaSummary:
In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and master class, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller's life and the...
- Author:Lamott, AnneSummary:
"A warm, generous and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps."-Los Angeles Times. Advice on writing and on life from an acclaimed bestselling author: "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years...