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C O M P O STI O N
On Writing Well
The Classic Guide to Writing
Nonfiction
30th Anniversary Edition
William Zinsser
Expanded and updated, the 30th anniversary
edition of this favorite of both teachers and
students now contains three new chapters, and
many new passages that place new emphasis on
the writers voice and on such fundamental
values as intention, character, and making
decisions.
While still covering all of the basics, Zinsser
includes a new chapter entitled Enjoyment,
Fear, and Confidence, urging students to
convey zest for what they are writing about and
to overcome their anxieties by trusting their general intelligence. Another chapter, The
Tyranny of the Final Product, advises students not to visualize their completed article but
to focus on all the prior decisions of selection, organization, and tone that will eventually let
them know what their piece is about.
Not since Elements of Style has there been a guide to writing as well presented
and readable as this one. A love and respect for the language is evident on every
page.Library Journal
C o n t e n t s : Introduction Part I: Principles The Transaction Simplicity Clutter

Style The Audience Words Usage Part II: Methods Unity The Lead and the
Ending Bits & Pieces Part III: Forms Nonfiction as Literature Writing About People:
The Interview Writing About Places: The Travel Article Writing About Yourself: The
Memoir Science and Technology Business Writing Sports Writing about the Art:
Critics and Columnists Humor Part IV: Attitudes The Sound of Your Voice Enjoyment, Fear and Confidence The Tyranny of the Final Product A Writers Decisions
Write as Well as You Can
W i l l i a m Z i n s s e r is a writer, editor and teacher. He began his career with the New York
Herald Tribune and has long been a freelance writer for several leading magazines. During the
1970s he taught writing at Yale University, where he was master of Branford College from
1979 to 1987.
Zinsser was general editor of the Book-of-the-Month Club. His eighteen books, ranging
from jazz to baseball, also include the influential Writing to Learn. He now teaches at the
New School in New York and at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Also Available:
On Writing Well CD Audio Collection
William Zinsser
Including On Writing Well and How to Write a Memoir, these classic audios are the definitive works on the art
of nonfiction writing.
HarperAudio: 3 CDs/2.5 hours.
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On Writing Well belongs on any shelf of serious reference works for writers.
New York Times
Harper paperbacks: 336 pp.; index.
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Writing to Learn
New
Writing Places
How to Writeand ThinkClearly

About Any Subject At All
The Life Journey of a Writer and
William Zinsser
Teacher
William Zinsser
Zinssers point of departure is that writing is a

powerful method of learning: Writing enables
us to find out what we knowand what we
dont knowabout whatever were trying to
learn.
In Writing Places Zinsser describes more than 50

years of writing and teaching in a series of
unusual locations, starting with his first job at
the legendary New York Herald Tribune and
including freelance stints in lonely apartments; a
decade as master of Branford College at Yale,
where his office was under a carillon; and
various quirky offices in New York, one of
which had a firepole. Each place taught him
valuable lessons that shaped the influential writer
and teacher he would become. Written with
humor, elegance, and vividly remembered detail about the men and women who kept
crossing his life, Writing Places will delight students who dream of writing their own
distinctive story.
An elegant exposition of the thesis that to

write is to learn . . . in the tradition of
Strunk and White, a model in its own
right.Kirkus Reviews
Harper paperbacks: 272 pp.
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The Elements of Story
A Rhetoric for Writers
Jacques Barzun
Field Notes on Nonfiction Writing
Francis Flaherty
After a lifetime of writing and editing prose,

Jacques Barzun has set his view of the best ways
to improve ones style. His discussions of diction,
syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision
guide students through the technique of making
the written word clear and agreeable to read.
The bulk of writing books address grammar,

style, and other line-by-line topics. Francis
Flaherty believes that complex, story-level
concernshow to make a story move and how
to use description to buttress your themepose
equally common and far more formidable
problems for writers.
In the spirit of The Elements of Style, and drawn
from Flahertys long experience as an editor at
the New York Times, this highly entertaining book
shows how Times articles read the way they do,
presenting 50 secrets of successful narratives.
Sometimes, say things sideways, Flaherty writes,
the reader will be grateful. White is whitest on black, he observes, let contrast work for
you. Through these and other hard-won story-level insights, sprinkled with examples from
real stories and leavened with a good dose of newsroom memoir, The Elements of Story fills a
large gap in the long shelf of writing books.
The book includes exercises, model passages,

and hundreds of amusing examples of usage
gone wrong.
History teacher, writer, critic, Barzun
strikes at pedantry, malapropisms,
imprecision, misdirectionall the ways
language can go wrong on the pageand
emerges the victor.Booklist
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The Sound on the Page
The Classic Guide to

Better Writing
Style and Voice in Writing
Ben Yagoda
Step-by-Step Techniques and

Exercises to Write Simply, Clearly,
In writing, style matters. Our favorite writers

often entertain, move, and inspire us less by
what they say than by how they say it. In The
Sound on the Page, acclaimed author, teacher, and
critic Ben Yagoda offers practical and incisive
help for students on developing and discovering
their own style and voice. This wonderfully rich
and readable book features interviews with
more than 40 of our most important authors
discussing their literary style, including Dave
Barry, Harold Bloom, Bill Bryson, Michael
Chabon, Jamaica Kincaid, and Anna Quindlen.
and Correctly
50th Anniversary Edition
Rudolf Flesch & A. H. Lass

Rudolf Fleschs philosophy is simple: writing
clearly and correctly doesnt have to be difficult.
With this handbook of practical methods and
wisdom, students can learn to express themselves
on paper.
The many examples and exercises included in
this book will guide them through the writing
process: getting started; organizing ideas;
connecting ideas; choosing the right tone;
making meaning clear; giving writing flair and punch; and using correct grammar.

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Collins Reference: 320 pp.; index.

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should be part of any writing collection.Library Journal
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Writing Your Life
Writing for Your Life

Discovering the Story of Your
Putting Your Past on Paper
Lifes Journey
Lou Willett Stanek, Ph.D.
Deena Metzger
The veteran writing teacher, lecturer, and author

of So You Want to Write a Novel can help your
students translate their joys and ordeals, thoughts
and triumphs into superbly crafted nonfiction
taking them step-by-step through the writing
process with care, encouragement, and expert
advice.
In the tradition of Annie Dillard and Natalie

Goldberg, this detailed resource for writers
shows the act of writing to be a dynamic means
of healing.
A deep and valuable book about writing
and the creative life that stimulates the
imagination.Linda Leonard, Ph.D.,
author of Witness to the Fire

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HarperOne: 272 pp.

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Fast Food Nation
How Soccer Explains

the World
The Dark Side of the All-American

Meal
An {Unlikely} Theory of
Eric Schlosser
Globalization
Franklin Foer
A favorite of composition and rhetoric

professors, Fast Food Nation presents students
with everything they never wanted to know
about their favorite foods in this engrossing yet
alarming story of Americas fast food chains. Part
investigative journalism, part social criticism, this
book will leave a lasting impact on anyone who
reads itno matter what their food preferences
may be.
Foer uses soccer as a lens through which he

examines the political and social climate of the
world we live in. He captivates his audience
with stylish prose and fascinating reportage on
the world of soccer and how it reflects many of
the worlds problems and triumphs.
Here is a wonderful addition to any nonfiction
writing class.
A riveting analysis of footballs struggle to
come to terms with the forces of free
trade, multinational brands and cultural
imperialism. . . . When it comes to writing about the sport, [Foer] is world
class.Newsweek
Harper Perennial: 272 pp.; index
2005 978-0-06-073142-7 pb, $13.99 ($17.99 Can.)
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Impeccably researched and masterfully put

together, Schlosser delivers a witty, shocking,
and artfully crafted tale of Americas fast food
industry. The P.S. section features a new Afterword by the author as well as interviews and
other timely information.
An elegiac expos of how burger, fries and sodas came to symbolize
America.New York Times Book Review
Harper Perennial: 416 pp.; illustrations; index.
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Freakonomics
SuperFreakonomics
A Rogue Economist Explores the
Global Cooling, Patriotic
Hidden Side of Everything
Prostitutes, and Why Suicide
Revised and Expanded Edition
Bombers Should Buy Life
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Insurance
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Why should you assign a book on economics to
your writing students? Freakonomics is a rare mix
of revolutionary ideas and wonderful writing.
Complex issues and statistics are carefullybut
straightforwardlyexplained to make each
point clear. Freakonomics will demonstrate to
your students how to think and write analyticallyand how to examine issues from a variety
of perspectives.
Levitt employs statistical tools that are
simple yet elegant. He cuts to the heart of
a question and picks topics that are fascinating.Los Angeles Times Book Review
William Morrow: 256 pp.; notes; index.
2006 978-0-06-123400-2 hc, $25.95 ($35.99 Can.)
When originally published, Freakonomics

exploded like a bomb on the culture, forever
changing the way students understand the way
the world works and how they really make
decisions. After more than two years on the
New York Times bestseller list, 3 million copies
sold, and single-handedly inventing a genre of
books, University of Chicago economist
Steven D. Levitt and New York Times writer
Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics.
Based on entirely new research, its bigger, more
provocative, and ready to challenge the way students think all over again.
William Morrow: 320 pp.
2009 978-0-06-088957-9 hc, $29.99 ($38.99 Can.)
Harper Perennial: 336 pp.; notes; index

2009 P.S. 978-0-06-073133-5 pb, $15.99 ($19.99 Can.)
Paperback available in September 2009
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Writings from
The New Yorker
Essays of E. B. White
E. B.White
19271976
This classic collection of one of the greatest

essayists of our time has been an inspiration to
nonfiction writers since its publication, and continues to be used in both literature and writing
courses as an example of superb writing.
E. B.White
There are enough sparkling gems here to
show that White was one of the countrys
great literary treasures.New York Times
Some of the finest examples of contemporary, genuinely American prose. Whites

style incorporates eloquence without
affection, profundity without pomposity,
and wit without frivolity or hostility.
Like his predecessors Thoreau and Twain,
Whites creative, humane, and graceful
perceptions are an education for the
sensibilities.Washington Post
Harper Perennial: 264 pp.

2006 978-0-06-092123-1 pb, $14.95 ($16.25 Can.)
Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 384 pp.

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Letters of E. B. White
New
Revised Edition
Anne Frank
Foreword by John Updike
The Book, The Life, The Afterlife
Francine Prose
Updated with newly released letters from 1976

to 1985, additional photographs, and a new
foreword by the late John Updike, this
unparalleled collection of letters now spans
nearly a century, from 1908 to 1985.
In June 1942, just weeks before she and her

family went into hiding from the Nazis, Anne
Frank received a diary for her thirteenth
birthday and began writing one of the most
compelling documents of modern history, The
Diary of a Young Girl.
Harper Perennial: 768 pp.; index.

2007 978-0-06-137459-3 pb, $19.95 ($23.50 Can.)
But the diary of Anne Frank, argues Francine

Prose, is as much a work of art as a historical
record. Few books have been as influential, and
Prose thoroughly investigates the diarys unique
afterlife: the obstacles and criticism Otto Frank
faced in publishing his daughters words; the
controversy surrounding the diarys Broadway and film adaptations; the claims of conspiracy
theorists who have cried fraud, and the scientific analysis that proved them wrong. Finally,
having assigned the book to her own students, Prose considers the rewards and challenges of
teaching the diary.
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Autobiography
of a Face
Truth & Beauty

A Friendship
Ann Patchett
Lucy Grealy
With an Afterword by Ann Patchett
Patchett paints an exquisite portrait of a

decades-long friendship with the critically
acclaimed writer Lucy Grealy. This is a tender
yet brutally honest book about loving a person
we cannot save. It is about loyalty, and about
being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of
someone who knew how to live life to the
fullest.
Students will be awestruck by Patchetts
beautiful and lyrical writing style. Truth &
Beauty has been picked as a freshman common
reader at Miami University and Clemson
Collegeand it continues to be adopted across
the curriculumfrom courses on writing to womens studies.
This frank, perceptive book can be read in many ways, not only as a story of
friendship but also as a young artists eye-opening introduction to the wider
world.New York Times
The reader mourns not only the loss of Lucy but the loss one feels when the
pages of an enthralling book begin to thin and, as if suddenly, there is no more
to read.Wall Street Journal
I spent five years of my life being treated

for cancer, but since then Ive spent fifteen
years being treated for nothing other than
looking different from everyone else. It
was the pain from that, from feeling ugly,
that I always viewed as the great tragedy
of my life. The fact that I had cancer
seemed minor in comparison. Lucy
Grealy
Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and
the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special,
Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and young adult to be torn
between two warring impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for
who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect.
This is a young womans first book, the story of her own life, and both book
and life are unforgettable.New York Times
Harper Perennial: 256 pp
2003 978-0-06-056966-2 pb, $12.95 ($17.95 Can.)

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Oracle Bones
River Town
A Journey Between Chinas Past
Two Years on the Yangtze
and Present
Peter Hessler
Peter Hessler
W
inner of the Kiriama Pacific Rim
Book Prize
Oracle Bones tells the story of modern-day China

and its growing links to the Western world, as
seen through the lives of ordinary people who
are connected in one way or another to America.
It combines soulful story-telling with a
journalists keen eye for detail resulting in a story
that transcends cultural divides and puts a
human face on history as it unfolds today.
Serenely confident, Hessler has a marvelous sense of the intonations and gestures
that give life to the moment. . . . If you
dont believe me, dip into the chapters in
Oracle Bones. . . . You will be hooked. New York Times Book Review
2007 978-0-06-082659-8 pb $15.95 ($19.95 Can.)
Hessler takes students on an unforgettable

journey to a small village in China where he
spent two years teaching English. What he
discovers while in this remote village is far more
than he ever thought possible. This is a very
intimate and human look at a towns struggle to
adapt to the modern world that surrounds it.
Charming and insightful. . . . Poignanthilarious. . . . Lively, intelligent. . . . You
will learn a great deal about real life in
contemporary China in River Town, and
about how that vast country appears in
the eyes of a sensitive, aware, rugged young American who keeps both his eyes
and his mind open.New York Times
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
An American
Childhood
Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer-Prize winning Annie Dillards vivid

memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the
1950s is a vivid and thoughtful evocation
of particular personal experiences that have
an exuberantly timeless appeal. (Chicago
Sun-Times)
No one really catches the beauty and essence of

nature quite like Annie Dillard does in this
extraordinarily crafted reflection on nature and
life. In gorgeous and lyrical prose, Dillard
demonstrates the descriptive and transformative
power of language, rivaled by very few
contemporary writers.

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The book is a form of meditation,

written with headlong urgency, about
seeing. A readers heart must go out to a
young writer with a sense of wonder so
fearless and unbridled. . . . There is an
ambition about her book that I like. . . .
It is the ambition to feel.Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review
2007 978-0-06-123332-6 pb, $14.95 ($18.95 Can.)
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Animal, Vegetable,
Miracle
The Paradox of Choice

Why More Is Less
Barry Schwartz
A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver
In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose,

Schwartz shows students how the dramatic
explosion in choice has paradoxically become a
problem instead of a solution, and how our
obsession with choice encourages us to seek that
which makes us feel worse.
In doing so, Schwartz, a Dorin Cartwright
Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at
Swarthmore College, also shows students how
to write a compelling and well-reasoned
argument.
Brilliant. . . . The case Schwartz makes
for a correlation between our emotional
state and what he calls the tyranny of choice is compelling, the implications
disturbing. . . . An insightful book.Christian Science Monitor
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Renowned for such novels as The Bean Trees and

The Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver has also written
several highly acclaimed works of nonfiction.
When Barbara Kingsolver and her family moved
from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they
took on a new challenge: to spend a year on a
locally-produced diet.
Our highest shopping goal was to get our food
from so close to home, wed know the person
who grew it. Often that turned out to be
ourselves as we learned to produce what we
needed, starting with dirt, seeds, and enough knowledge to muddle through. Or starting
with baby animals, and enough sense to refrain from naming them.
Animal,Vegetable, Miracle follows Barbara and her family in their search for another way to
eat and live. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, and complete with original recipes,
Animal,Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of
family life, and diversified farms at the center of the American diet.

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Harper Perennial: 400 pp.; illustrated

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Small Wonder
High Tide in Tucson
Essays
Essays from Now or Never
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver
Whether Kingsolver is contemplating the Grand

Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood,
adolescence, genetic engineering, TV-watching,
the history of civil rights, or the future of a
nation founded on the best of all human
impulses, these essays are grounded in the
authors belief that our largest problems have
grown from the earths remotest corners as well
as our own backyards, and that answers may lie
in those places, too.
In this collection, Kingsolver brings a moral

vision and refreshing sense of humor to subjects
ranging from modern motherhood to the
history of private property to the suspended
citizenship of human beings in the Animal
Kingdom.
Kingsolvers essays should be savored like
quiet afternoons with a friend. . . . She
speaks in a language rich with music and
replete with good sense.New York Times
Book Review

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J O URN A LIS M
The Portable Obituary
The Dead Beat

Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the
How the Famous, Rich, and
Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
Powerful Really Died
Marilyn Johnson
Michael Largo
Every morning, countless readers of the

morning papers bypass the front page, neglect
the sports section, and go directly to the
obituary page. Its not morbid curiosity (or not
just that) that motivates them. Legions of
obsessive fans turn to the obit page first because
it very often contains the most gripping and
best-told stories of the day.
The Portable Obituary examines revealing details

about how the deeds, intimate habits, and
lifestylesgood and badof famous people
ultimately influenced their mode of death and,
in due course, determined their role in history
and culture. Largo makes clear that life, famous
or not, can only be fully understood backwards.
The true cause of death is often the one omitted
detail of history, but in fact reveals the most
poignant snapshot of an individuals life.
In The Dead Beat, former Life magazine writer

and Esquire editor Marilyn Johnson makes a
smart and light-hearted survey of obituary
writing, unraveling the cult and culture of
obituaries to consider what our feelings about
deathand the way we write about ittell us about how we live.

2007 978-00-6123166-7 pb, $14.95 (18.95 Can.)
[A] fascinating book about the art, history and subculture of obituary
writing. . . . [Johnsons] delight in the subject is unabashed. . . . Johnsons analysis
of the form and its top practitioners is absorbing, [and] her accounts of the
culture of obituary lovers is downright amazing.New York Times Book Review
Harper Perennial: 272 pp.; 8-page b&w photo insert
2007 978-0-06-075876-9 pb, $14.95 ($18.95 Can.)
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The Best American

Crime Reporting 2009
The Best American

Science Writing 2009
Jeffrey Toobin, Editor
Otto Penzler & Thomas H. Cook, Series Editors
Natalie Angier, Editor

Jesse Cohen, Series Editor
raised as arresting reading (People) and the

P
best mix of the political, the macabre, and the
downright brilliant (Entertainment Weekly), The
Best American Crime Reporting 2009 features as
editor Jeffrey Toobin, the bestselling author,
Emmy Award-winner, staff writer for The New
Yorker, and senior legal analyst for CNN. A
collection of the years best true crime writing,
this edition continues in the tradition of the
series as another phenomenal collection of the
most compelling stories from some of the
masters of true crime on everything from fraud
to murder, theft to madness.
It is rare to be offered such a diverse collection

of science writing (Nature). Provocative and
engaging, The Best American Science Writing 2009
covers the full spectrum of scientific inquiryfrom biochemistry, physics, and astronomy, to
genetics, evolutionary theory, and cognition.
Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling
author and New York Times science writer
Natalie Angier, this ninth edition in the series
features articles from a wide variety of publications, providing a comprehensive overview of
the years most compelling, relevant, and
exciting scientific developments.
As sad and spooky as a short story by Joyce Carol Oates. . . . More chilling, and
believable, than a novel by Bret Easton Ellis.Wall Street Journal
Ecco: 368 pp.
2009 978-0-06-149084-2 pb, $14.99 ($18.99 Can.)
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Provides an engaging and educational overview of science reporting.

Science News
Ecco: 336 pp.
2009 978-0-06-143166-1 pb, $14.99 ($18.99 Can.)
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The Breaks of the

Game
Paper Trails
David Halberstam
Desires, a Surprising Number of
True Stories of Confusion,

Mindless Violence, and Forbidden
Which Are Not About Marriage
David Halberstams groundbreaking The Breaks

of the Game set the standard for sports journalism.
It focuses on one grim season (197980) in the
life of the Portland Trail Blazers, a team that
only three years before had been National
Basketball Association champions.
Pete Dexter
Edited by Rob Fleder
Here, for the first time, are the finest columns
from Pete Dexter of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Dexter may be the best ever at conveying
mood. . . . Even two decades later,
Dexters writing holds up.New York
Times Book Review
Halberstam follows this collection of men

through the months, through the losing streaks
and occasional victories, the endless trips and
the brutal schedules. The authenticity of
Halberstams knowledge of the basketball world
is unrivaled.Yet he is writing here about far
more than just basketballthe influence of big
media, the clash of ethics, and the conflicts of race and classwhich makes this book a
must-read for those pursuing a career in journalism.
Ecco: 320 pp.

2007 978-0-06-118935-7 hc, $25.95 ($27.95 Can.)
One of the best books Ive ever read about American sports!
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times
Hyperion: 416 pp.
2009 978-1-40-130972-5 pb, $15.99 (N/C)
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Dispatches from
the Edge
A Death in Belmont
Sebastian Junger
A Memoir of War, Disasters,
Sebastain Junger examines the fatal collision of

three lives during the Boston Strangler murder
case.
and Survival
With a New Afterword
Anderson Cooper
Jungers clear, beautifully reasonable

writing is the literary equivalent of
night-vision goggles. . . . Hes navigating a
maze of shadows, and you can see all the
more clearly what an enormously skillful
prose artist he is. . . . Junger entrances the
reader by picking out small details that
give the events hes describing an enthralling vividness and resonance and clarity.
Time magazine
From one of Americas leading reporters comes

an extraordinarily powerful look at the most
volatile crises he has witnessed around the world,
from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond.
His vignettes from the worlds
horrorscapes rise above the swagger of
many journalistic memoirs because
Cooper writes with competence as well as
feeling. . . . Intriguing.
Washington Post Book World

2007 978-0-06-074269-0 P.S. pb, $14.95 ($18.95 Can.)
Harper paperbacks: 240 pp.; 8-page color photo insert

2007 978-0-06-113668-9 pb, $13.95 ($17.50 Can.)
Also from Sebastian Junger

The Perfect Storm
A True Story of Men Against the Sea

2007 978-0-06-114846-0 P.S. pb, $13.95 ($17.50 Can.)
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In the Hot Zone
Bias
One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars
A CBS Insider Exposes How the

Media Distort the News
Kevin Sites
With a New Introduction by the

Author
As Yahoo!s first news correspondent, Kevin Sites

spent the last year covering every major global
conflict for Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone on
Yahoo! News. These areas of conflict are
typically left uncovered or under-reported by
mainstream news organizations. Sites bravely
visited each one, often without help of any kind,
and this book delves further into the stories
behind Sites adventures.
Bernard Goldberg
This insiders account of Mr. Goldbergs
career at CBS is filled with so many
stories of repulsive elitism and prejudice
on the part of his peers that it elevates
Bias to must-read status. . . . His case is
airtight.Wall Street Journal
Harper Perennial: 368 pp,

2007 978-0-06-122875-9 pb $15.95 ($18.95 Can.)
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C RE A TIVE W RITING
Reading Like a Writer
A Problem from Hell

America and the Age of Genocide
A Guide for People Who Love Books
Samantha Power
and for Those Who Want to Write
Drawing on classified cables, private papers,

exclusive interviews with Washingtons top
policy-makers, and her own reporting from the
modern killing fields, Samantha Power tells the
story of both American courage and indifference in the face of some of the worst massacres
of the 20th century.
Francine Prose
Samantha Power has written one of those

rare books that is truly as important as its
subject.Philip Gourevitch, author of We
Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be
Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
2007 978-0-06-112014-5 P.S. pb $17.95 ($22.95 Can.)
Them
Long before there were creative-writing

workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers
learn to write? By reading the work of their
predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine
Prose.
A must for creative writing classes, Reading Like
a Writer promises to do just as its subtitle
indicates. Prose will take your students through
excerpts of many of the worlds greatest literary
works, pointing out the tricks of great writers
such as Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen,
Dickens, Woolf, and Chekhov. She cautions students to slow down and pay attention to
words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted.
The passages are . . . subtle and brilliant in their capture of human
complexity . . . Prose is . . . a skilled . . . analyst of what makes them so.
San Francisco Chronicle
2007 978-00-6077705-0 P.S. pb, $13.95 ($17.50 Can.)
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How to Read Literature

Like a Professor
How to Read Novels

Like a Professor
A Lively and Entertaining Guide to
A Jaunty Exploration of the
Reading Between the Lines
Worlds Favorite Literary Form
Thomas C. Foster
Thomas C. Foster
What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a

journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a
sudden rain shower? Many students only skim
the surface of a novel, not realizing that there is
much more going on between the lines.
Out of all literary forms, the novel is arguably

the most discussedand the most fretted over
by students. In his follow-up to the wildly
successful How to Read Literature Like a Professor,
Thomas C. Foster provides a lively and
entertaining guide to understanding and
dissecting novels, showing students how to make
the everyday reading experience more enriching,
satisfying, and fun.
Through this lively and entertaining guide to

literature, your students will start to get more
out of reading simply be learning to read
literature through the eyes of the ultimate
professional reader, you, the college professor.

2008 978-0-06-134040-6 pb, $13.95 ($14.95 Can.)
Written by Thomas C. Foster, professor of English at the University of Michigan, Flint, How
to Read Literature Like a Professor will unlock many of the truths hidden in great literature.
From major themes such as changing seasons, quests, sex, and geography, to literary models
such as Shakespeare and the Bible, How to Read literature Like a Professor will give your
students a broad overview of literature, helping to make reading more rewarding, enriching,
and fun.
Harper paperbacks: 336 pages; index
2003 978-00-6000942-7 pb, $13.99 ($18.99 Can.)
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The Creative License
Not Quite What I Was

Planning
Giving Yourself Permission to Be

The Artist You Truly Are
Six-Word Memoirs by Writers
Danny Gregory
Famous and Obscure
Edited by Smith Magazine

Not Quite What I Was Planning is a fascinating,
addictively compelling collection of six-word
memoirs that alternately humorous, sad, and
strange, from writers both famous (Joyce Carol
Oates, Dave Eggers, Sebastian Junger) and
obscure. From bittersweet romance to gratifying
divorce (Found true love, married someone
else), proud achievement to stinging regret
(Never really finished anything, except cake),
these true tales tell the diversity of human
experience in relatable, bite-sized pieces and are the perfect creative inspiration to get your
students to write their own six-word memoirs.
Harper Perennial: 240 pp.; 32 b&w illustrations throughout; index.
2008 978-0-06-137405-0 pb; $12.00 ($13.00 Can.)
The Creative License offers readers, students, and

aspiring writers a way to reconnect to their own
creative energies, develop their artistic side, and
become comfortable with the creative process.
When Danny Gregorys life was turned upside
down by tragedy, he learned to cope by teaching
himself to draw. The result was a complete
transformation of his life, his priorities, his career,
and the way he saw the world. In handwritten
chapters full of his lush watercolor illustrations, he gently instructs us in the art of allowing
ourselves to fail, giving up the expectation of perfection and opening our eyes to the beauty
around us. Were given permission to express ourselves fully and take part in the creative
process without fear.
Readers and writers of all stripes will find inspiration in this unique and beautiful book.
Hyperion: 208 pp.; illustrations.
2006 978-1-40-130792-9 pb, $16.00 ($17.25 Can.)
Also Available:
Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak

2008 978-0-06-171462-7 pb; $10.00 ($12.00 Can.)
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Whos Writing This?
Youve Got to Read

This Book!
Fifty-Five Writers on Humor,

Courage, Self-Loathing, and the
55 People Talk About the Book That
Creative Process
Changed Their Life
Edited by Daniel Halpern
Edited by Jack Canfield & Gay Hendricks

Some of todays most interesting and prominent
people share the books that have been transformational to them, and why. Students will
encounter well-known names such as Malachy
McCourt, Christiane Northrup, M.D., Dave
Barry, Stephen Covey, Mark Victor Hansen, and
John Grey, among others, as well as Canfield and
Hendricks themselves.
hese essays will inspire, inform, and motivate
T
students to recall and pursue their own
transforming experiences with books, charting a
path to a more resonant life.
A fascinating collection of stories about the undisputedly transformative power of
reading. . . . This must-read is sure to provide inspiration, motivation, and a springboard for discussion among book people and book clubs everywhere.Booklist
2007 978-0-06-089175-6 pb, $14.95 ($18.95 Can.)
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Now back in print, in Whos Writing This?,

editor Daniel Halpern asks numerous writers to
muse briefly on the fictional persona behind
the scenes, the alter ego that accompanies
creation. Fifty-five well-known authorssuch
as Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, William Gass,
Czeslaw Milosz, James Michener, Joyce Carol
Oates, and Cynthia Oziickcontributed their
interpretations of this idea, along with a whimsical self-portrait. The essays are mostly one- to
two- page snapshots and vary widely as to
approach. Edward Gorey cleverly anagrams his
name into those of characters, such as Ogdred Weary. Susan Sontag recalls her longtime
disavowal of her work and finally comes to feel that the writer is me: not my double and
thus she is both Dr. Frankenstein and the monster.
2009 978-0-06-178222-0 pb, $14.99 ($18.99 Can.)
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The Curtain
Testaments Betrayed
An Essay in Seven Parts
An Essay in Nine Parts
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
In this brilliant exploration of the novel, one of

the genres most distinguished practitioners
sketches out his views on the art of the novel
and its importance to Western Civilization.
Kundera defends the moral rights of the artist

and the respect due to a work of art and its
creators wishes.
A defense of fiction and a lesson in the
art of reading.New York Times Book
Review
According to Kundera, the real work of a novel

is not bound up in the specifics of any one
language: what makes a novel matter is its ability
to reveal some previously unknown aspect of
our existence. In The Curtain, Kundera skillfully
describes how the best novels do just that.

1996 978-0-06-092751-6 pb $13.95 ($16.50 Can.)
Not since Henry James, perhaps, has a

fiction writer examined the process of
writing with such insight.New York
Times Book Review
Harper Perennial: 176 pages
2008 978-0-06-084195-9 pb, $13.95 ($16.50 Can.)
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The Art of the Novel
Agnss Final Afternoon
Milan Kundera
An Essay on the Work of Milan
Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such

important and diverse figures as Rabelais,
Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and
Musil, Broch, and Kafka. His discussion of his
own work includes his views on the role of
historical events in fiction, the meaning of
action, and the creation of character in the
post-psychological novel.
Franois Ricard
Kundera
An imaginative literary essay . . . lithe and

perceptive . . . Franois Ricard probes the
thematic unities and formal innovations of
Kunderas novels to discover the essential.New York Times Book Review
2004 978-0-06-000565-8 pb, $13.95 ($18.95 Can.)
The book has its authors familiar

swiftness and variety of attack and his
elegant, provocative irony.The New
Yorker
2003 978-0-06-009374-7 pb, $12.95 ($19.95 Can.)
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Understanding Comics
Making Comics
The Invisible Art
Storytelling Secrets of Comics,
Scott McCloud
Manga, and Graphic Novels
Scott McCloud
Arguably the most important cartoonist
alive. Locust magazine
Every medium should be lucky enough

to have a taxonomist as brilliant as
McCloud. The follow-up to his pioneering
Understanding Comics . . . isnt really about
how to draw comics: its about how to
make drawings become a story and how
cartooning choices communicate meaning
to readers. (There are no rules, he says,
and here they are.)Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
In 1994 Scott McCloud tore down the wall

between high and low culture with Understanding Comics, a comic book about comics, linking
the medium to such diverse fields as media
theory, movie criticism, and web design. Since
its publication, Understanding Comics has found a
place in all sorts of college coursesfrom
composition and the art of narrative, to graphic
design.
With McCloud as their guide, students will
unravel the secrets of telling a storyand theyll
see how each step along the way is filled with possible pitfalls and artistic possibilities.
In one lucid, well-designed chapter after another, [McCloud] guides us through
the elements of comics style, and . . . how words combine with pictures to work
their singular magic. When the 215-page journey is finally over, most readers will
find it difficult to look at comics in quite the same way ever again.
Gary Trudeau, New York Times Book Review
Harper paperbacks: 272 pages; illustrated throughout; index

2006 978-0-06-078094-4 pb, $22.95 ($28.95 Can.)
Also from Scott McCloud:
Reinventing Comics
How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing

2000 978-0-06-095350-8 pb, $22.95 ($28.95 Can.)
an
Art Form
Harper paperbacks: 224 pp; illustrated throughout

1994 978-00-6097625-5 pb, $22.99 ($26.95 Can.)
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How Not to Write

a Novel
The New Lifetime

Reading Plan
The Classical Guide to World
200 Classic Mistakes and How to
Literature, Revised and Expanded
Avoid ThemA Misstep-by-Misstep

Guide
Clifton Fadiman & John S. Major
Howard Mittelmark & Sandra Newman

In chronological sections, the authors provide
students with brief and informative introductions to more than 130 classics of world
literaturefrom Bront to Confucius, Homer
to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Solzhenitsyn
to Sun-Tzu.
Collins Reference: 400 pp.
1999 978-0-06-272073-3 pb, $15.99 ($19.99 Can.)
Despite the abundance of writing how-to books,

unpublished writers seem to repeat the same
mistakes again and again, from making their
protagonists into cooler versions of themselves
to describing a character preparing and eating
breakfastfor fifteen pages. Unlike most
writing books, How Not to Write a Novel is not a
point-by-point plot formula for success. Instead,
by using humor combined with straightforward
advice, this guide provides expert trouble-shooting that can be immediately put into practice to get any manuscript out of the slush pile
and into the bookstores.
2008 978-0-06-135795-4 pb, $15.95 ($17.25 Can.)
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Escaping into the Open
Write Away
One Novelists Approach to Fiction
The Art of Writing True
and the Writing Life
Elizabeth Berg
Elizabeth George
For the beginning wordsmith, Berg provides

guidance and concrete suggestions for getting
started. She outlines the fifteen essential Ps of
writingfrom purpose and perseverance to
priorities and patience, to playfulness and pens,
pencils, and paperand shares the ways she uses
these to make the writing process as painless and
joyous as possible.
What better way to experience the fiction

writing process, than first-hand, with a New York
Times best-selling author?
Elizabeth George has spent years teaching
writing, and shes created a clear, intelligent, and
functional guide to constructing a good novel,
using excerpts from her own and other writers
work.
This is a really good book . . . anyone

who ever needs to write anything will find
bright shards of useful stuff here.
Booklist
Harper paperbacks: 288 pp; index.

2005 978-0-06-056044-7 pb, $13.95 ($17.50 Can.)

2000 978-0-06-092929-9 pb $12.00 ($14.00 Can.)
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The Journal of Joyce

Carol Oates
The Faith of a Writer

Joyce Carol Oates
19731982
Discussing subjects most important to the

narrative craft, Joyce Carol Oates touches on
topics such as inspiration, memory, self-criticism,
and the unique power of the unconscious.
Oates claims that inspiration and energy and
even genius are rarely enough to make art: for
prose fiction is also a craft, and craft must be
learned, whether by accident of design.
Joyce Carol Oates

The revealing and fascinating personal journals
of Joyce Carol Oates from one of the most
important and productive periods of her long
career create a portrait of the artist as a young
woman, fully engaged with her world and her
culture, a writer who paradoxically fancied
herself invisible but who was quickly
becoming one of the most respected, discussed,
and controversial figures in American letters.
Who better than Joyce Carol Oates . . . to

explicate the craft of writing?
New York Times Book Review
2004 978-0-06-056554-1 pb, $11.95 ($13.95 Can.)
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Uncensored:
Views & (Re)views
Fiction Writers
Handbook
Joyce Carol Oates
Hallie & Whit Burnett

Introduction by Norman Mailer
Oates brings together thirty-seven diverse and

provocative pieces from The New York Review of
Books,The Times Literary Supplement, and the New
York Times Book Review. Through these balanced
and illuminating essays, we see Oates at the top
of her form, engaged with forebears and
contemporaries, providing clues to her own
creative process.
This book offers practical advice on every aspect

of writing novels and short stories, including
plotting and narrative development, characterization and dialogue, sources of material,
planning an opening, roughing out chapters,
using suspense and emotional color, rewriting
and highlighting, and much more. Examples
from the works of outstanding writers, past and
present, illustrate each point.
The pervasive suspicion that serious

reading is becoming a marginal pursuit
contributes to the anxious, timid,
supportive tone of what passes for literary
criticism these days, and the timorousness
of the enterprise is part of what makes Oatess robust, painstaking, and
self-assured essays both exemplary and somewhat anomalous. . . .
Uncensored provides ample instruction and welcome provocation.

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2006 978-0-06-077557-5 pb, $13.95 ($16.50 Can.)
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Living By Fiction
The Writing Life
Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard
The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek illuminates what the
writing process has been like for her.
Living By Fiction is written forand dedicated

topeople who love literature. Dealing with
writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover,
Pynchon, Borges, Garcia Mrquez, Beckett, and
Calvino, Dillard shows why fiction matters and
how it can reveal more of the modern world
and modern thinking than all the academic
sciences combined.
For nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the

trials and satisfactions of a life spent with
words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling,
conversation with a stimulating and
extraordinarily talented colleague.
Chicago Tribune

2000 978-0-06-091544-5 pb, $13.95 ($15.00 Can.)
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Writing Past Dark
Self-Editing for
Fiction Writers
Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other

Dilemmas in the Writers Life
How to Edit Yourself Into Print
Bonnie Friedman
Second Edition
Renni Browne & Dave King
A writers companion geared toward exploring

the emotional side of writing. The book deals
with everything from envy to guilt, to the
dreaded writers block.
Browne and King take students through the

same processes an editor uses to perfect a piece
of work. This edition includes detailed chapters
on exposition, character description, point of
view, dialogue, and interior monologue, as well
as helpful exercises and checklists at the end of
each chapter.
A wonderfully wise guide to integrating

the terrors of the creative process with the
work and art of living a life. I will insist
my students read it.Robb Forman Dew
1994 978-0-06-092200-9 pb, $12.99 ($16.50 Can.)
Harper paperbacks: 288 pp.; line drawings; index.

2004 978-0-06-054569-7 pb, $13.99 ($17.99 Can.)
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Fruitflesh
Walking on Alligators
Seeds of Inspiration for Women
A Book of Meditations for Writers
Who Write
Susan Shaughnessy
Gayle Brandeis
In this nifty handbook of useful and enduring

advice that writers should keep right by the
keyboard, (San Francisco Chronicle), Shaughnessy
combines quotes from experienced writers
including Anne Rice, Art Spiegelman, Diane
Ackerman, Scott Turow, Toni Morrison,Vaclav
Havel and Camille Pagliaalong with her own
carefully considered ideas about the craft of
writing.
Award-winning author and poet Brandeis

presents the perfect blend of meditations and
writing exercises to inspire women to tap into
their creative center.
What a sensual book! Anyone immersing
herself in Fruitflesh is sure to find her
writing liberated, and enriched by the
many stimulating exercises.Susan Perry,
Ph.D., author of Writing in Flow
HarperOne: 224 pp.

1993 978-0-06-250758-7 pb, $14.99 ($18.95 Can.)
HarperOne: 224 pp.

2004 978-0-06-058718-5 pb, $14.95 ($17.50 Can.)
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Telling Lies for Fun &

Profit
Spider, Spin Me a Web

A Handbook for Fiction Writers
Lawrence Block
A Manual for Fiction Writers
Lawrence Block
Introduction by Sue Grafton
Now, with Lawrence Blocks expert advice,

students can learn the art of entrapping the
reader in a maze of fascinating fiction. This book
includes techniques to help students increase
their creativity, develop an environment that
nourishes them and their craft, and to write a
solid piece of fiction that will get a reader (or
editor) to readand buytheir books.
From studying the market to mastering

self-discipline and creative procrastination, and
through coping with rejections, two-time Edgar
Award-winning novelist Lawrence Block gives
anyone serious about writing an invaluable
sourcebook of information.
One of the best writers now working the

beat.The Wall Street Journal
I would urge writers, at whatever point in

their careers, to take the time to read this
indispensable handbook.Sue Grafton,
from the Introduction

1996 978-0-688-14690-0 pb, $14.95 ($18.95 Can.)

1994 978-0-68-813228-6 pb, $13.00 ($16.50 Can.)
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Writing on Both Sides

of the Brain
How to Write
Advice and Reflections
Richard Rhodes
Breakthrough Techniques for

People Who Write
Uniquely fusing practical advice on writing

with his own insights into the craft, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author Rhodes constructs
beautiful prose about the issues writers are most
afraid to articulate: How do I dare write? Where
do I begin? What do I do with this story I have
to tell?
Henriette Anne Klauser Ph.D.

The creator and owner of Writing Resource
Workshops presents a revolutionary approach to
writing that teaches students how to express
themselves fluently and confidently.
Wonderful . . . not only charming, but
powerfully enabling and genuinely helpful
to my writing students. . . . The author
makes the material not only accessible
and palatable, but a pleasure as well.
Dr. William Zeiger
How generous [Rhodes] is with his

mind and his heart. Buy this book, buy it.
Its a handbook on how to live.
The Washington Post
1996 978-0-688-14948-2 pb, $14.95 ($17.50 Can.)
HarperOne: 160 pp.

1987 978-0-06-254490-2 pb, $15.95 ($18.95 Can.)
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The Notebooks of
Raymond Chandler
What If?
Writing Exercises for Fiction
Writers
Raymond Chandler
Anne Bernays & Pamela Painter
Filled with both public and private writings,

these pages give students an intimate view of
the writer at work and contain early ideas,
descriptions, and anecdotes later used in such
classics as The Long Goodbye and The Blue Dahlia.
Each of the nearly 75 exercises in What If? teach

a skill or concept that will help students with
the technical fundamentals of writing fiction.
The award-winning authors deal with such
topics as discovering where to start and end a
story, learning when to use dialogue and when
to use indirect discourse, creating characters,
transforming real events into fiction, and finding
language that both sings and communicates
precisely.

2007 9780061227448 pb $13.95 ($17.99/CAN)
A sample of exercises from What If? includes:

First Sentences: Beginning in the Middle What
Do Your Characters Want? Journal Keeping for Writers Speech Flavor, or Sounding Real
Magnifying Conflict Five Different Versions: And One Is a Lie The Inner Life of
Characters Not Quite a Fight Imitation: Sincere Flatteryand Learning With
Revision Comes Final Meaning
1991 978-0-06-272006-1 pb, $13.99 ($17.99 Can.)
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T h e P o s t S e c r e t P ro j e c t
PostSecret
Frank Warren is the founder and curator of the PostSecret Project. For the project, which
was started in October 2004, Warren asked people to write a secret they had never told
anyone on a handmade postcard and mail it to him. The response was overwhelming, and
the cards are astonishing in their honesty and creativity. Now spanning four volumes, these
cards each bear an intimate, powerful, or sometimes even chilling sentiment, told through
handmade illustrations, photographs, collages, and other creative means.
From Ordinary Lives
Writing teachers use these postcards as writing prompts. Theyve discovered that showing
their students a postcardand asking the to write a story about itworks well as both a
class and homework assignment.
They [the postcards] are mini-works of art. Some are heartbreaking, some are
hilarious, some are touching or thought-provoking or shocking or silly or
repulsive. All of them are riveting. . . . PostSecret seems to prove three (at least)
things: Lots of ordinary Americans are artistic, lots of them are poetic, and lots
of them have something to hide. USA Today
Extraordinary Confessions
Frank Warren
2005 978-00-6089919-6 hc, $28.99 ($36.99 Can.)
My Secret
A PostSecret Book
Frank Warren
2006 978-00-6119668-3 hc, $21.99 ($27.99 Can.)
The Secret Lives of

Men and Women
A PostSecret Book
Frank Warren
2007 978-00-6119875-5 hc, $21.99 ($27.99 Can.)
A Lifetime of Secrets
A PostSecret Book
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Browse Inside My Secret
Frank Warren
2007 978-0-06-123860-4 hc, $28.99 ($31.99 Can.)
Browse Inside The Secret Lives of Men and Women

Browse Inside A Lifetime of Secrets
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P OETRY
Nine Gates
The Art of Reading

Poetry
Entering the Mind of Poetry
Jane Hirshfield
Harold Bloom
Poet Jane Hirshfield illuminates the craft and

mind of poetry, from the work of anonymous
Egyptian love poets to that of Rilke, Dickinson,
Yeats, and Ginsberg.
Writer and scholar Harold Bloom gives students

an elegant guide to reading poetrya master
critics distillation of a lifetime of teaching and
criticism. Bloom tackles such subjects as poetic
voice, the nature of metaphor and allusion, and
the nature of poetic value itself. Bloom writes
that the work of great poetry is to aid us to
become free artists of ourselves.
Rare and fine: a collection of essays

combining the richness of a daybook with
the pointed quality of a good lecture.
Robert Pinsky
This edition also includes a recommended

reading list of poems.

1998 978-0-06-092948-0 pb, $13.00 ($15.00 Can.)

2005 978-00-607966-6 pb, $9.95 ($11.95 Can.)
Also by Harold Bloom:
The Best Poems of the English Language
From Chaucer Through Frost

2007 978-00-6054042-5 pb, $19.95 ($24.95 Can.)
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Wallace Stevens Poem, Parts of a World
Interview with Jane Hirshfield in The Atlantic
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The New
Comprehensive
American Rhyming
Dictionary
The Poetry Handbook

A Dictionary of Terms
Fourth Edition
Babette Deutsch
A much-needed work, splendidly done:
the definitions are clear, the illustrations
apt; what is more, it is a pleasure to read
for its own sake, and so belongs to the
aristocracy of reference books.Richard
Wilbur
Sue Young
Containing over 65,000 words, phrases, and
colloquialisms, this book is a goldmine of
rhymes certain to aid and delight everyone who
works with language, from the amateur poet to
the professional wordsmith.

2009 978-0-06-463548-6 pb, $14.00 ($17.50 Can.)

1991 978-0-380-71392-9 pb $14.99 ($18.99 Can.)
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The Essential Haiku
The Poets Dictionary
Versions of Bash, Buson, & Issa
A Handbook of Prosody and Poetic
Edited by Robert Hass
Devices
William Packard
Here is a wonderful collection that is filled with
classic examples to discuss with your students
before you ask them to write a haiku.
Arranged alphabetically, The Poets Dictionary

defines more than 100 tools, terms and
techniques of writing poetry, illustrating them
through examples from many classic and
modern poets.
Ecco: 352 pp.

1995 978-0-88-001351-2 pb, $16.00 ($19.00 Can.)

1994 978-0-06-272045-0 pb $15.00 ($18.95 Can.)
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Wishes, Lies, and

Dreams
New Rhyming
Dictionary and Poets
Handbook
Teaching Children to Write Poetry
Kenneth Koch & Ron Padgett
Burges Johnson
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This dictionary brings thousands of rhyming

words to the writers fingertips, and the
handbook section provides definitions and
examples of rhyming patterns and poetic
structure.
Long considered a classic in its field, Kochs

book is a vivid account of a poets experience
teaching Manhattan school children to write
verse. Koch describes his inventive methods and
cites numerous examples of the childrens
worksthus providing a valuable handbook.

1991 978-0-06-272014-6 pb $17.95 ($22.95 Can.)
Harper paperbacks: 336 pp.; illustrated throughout.

2000 978-0-06-095509-0 pb, $13.95 ($17.95 Can.)
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The Collected Poetry of

Nikki Giovanni
The Practice of Poetry

Writing Exercises from Poets Who
Teach
19681998
Robin Behn & Chase Twichell
Nikki Giovanni
Introduction by Virginia C. Fowler
The Practice of Poetry combines over 90 tested and

proven poetry-writing exercises with an
illuminating personal essay by each contributor.
For those enrolled in a creative writing program,
or for those working on their own, the exercises
are designed to help stimulate the imagination
and increase technical flexibility and control.
Among the contributors are: Rita Dove, Maxine
Kumin, David St. John, Lee Upton, Jack Myers,
Daniel Halpern, Alicia Ostriker, Stephen Dunn,
Donald Justice, Roland Flint, Pamela Alexander,
and Richard Jackson.
1992 978-0-06-273024-4 pb $16.99 ($21.99 Can.)
When Nikki Giovannis poems first emerged

during the Black Arts Movement, she immediately took a place among the most celebrated
and controversial poets of the era. Now, more
than forty years later, Nikki Giovanni still stands
as one of the most commanding, luminous
voices to grace Americas political and poetic
landscape. Professors tell us that she is often
cited as one of their students favorite poets.
The first of its kind, this omnibus covers Nikki
Giovannis complete work of poetry from
19681998 and includes the complete volumes of five adult books of poetry: Black Feeling
Black Talk/Black Judgement, My House,The Women and the Men, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day,
and Those Who Ride the Night Winds.
Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 512 pp.; index
2007 P.S. 978-0-06-072429-0 pb, $15.99 ($18.95 Can.)
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Howl
Ariel: The Restored

Edition
Original Draft Facsimile,

Transcript, and Variant Versions,
A Facsimile of Plaths Manuscript,
Fully Annotated by Author,
Reinstating Her Original
with Contemporaneous
Selection and Arrangement
Correspondence, Account of First
Sylvia Plath
Foreword by Frieda Hughes
This facsimile edition restores Plaths own
prepared collection of Ariel, reinstating her
original selection and arrangement, and includes
a P.S. section which includes important facts and
documents about the book and author.
The publication of this other Ariel will
no doubt sustain the Hughes/Plath
controversy for years to come, but we can
be grateful for the insights provided by
this restored edition.Library Journal
Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 256 pp.; illustrated
2005 P.S. 978-0-06-073260-8 pb $13.95 (N/C)
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Precursor Texts, and Bibliography
Allen Ginsberg
Originally published in 1956, this annotated
edition of the prophetic masterpiece that broke
new ground in American poetry through its
expansive form, tonal range, and freshness of
spirit allows students to see Ginsbergs composition process unfold.
Taken all together, Ginsbergs poems
are x-rays of a considerable part of American society during the last four
decades.The New Yorker
2006 978-0-06-113745-7 pb, $18.95 ($23.95 Can.)
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S C REEN W RITING
Story
New
Style, Structure, Substance, and
Tales from the Script
the Principles of Screenwriting
Peter Hanson & Paul Robert Herman
Robert McKee
Robert McKees screenwriting workshops have
earned him an international reputation for
inspiring novices, refining works in progress, and
putting major screenwriting careers back on
track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria
Steinem, Julia Roberts, and John Cleese are just
a few of his celebrity alumni, and writers,
producers, development executives and agents
all flock to his lecture series, praising it as a
mesmerizing and intense learning experience.
In Story, McKee expands on the concepts he
teaches in his seminars, providing students with
the most comprehensive, integrated explanation of the craft of writing for the screen.
McKee is the Stanislavski of writing.Dennis Dugan, Actor/Writer, NYPD
Blue,The Rockford Files, Hill Street Blues
It! Books: 480 pp.; photos; index.
1997 978-0-06-039168-3 hc, $35.00 ($43.95 Can.)
HarperAudio; Abridged; 5 CDs; 6 hours.
1997 978-0-06-085618-2 CD, $29.95 ($39.95 Can.)
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Few modern art forms are as misunderstood as

the craft of creating movie scripts, because the
collaborative nature of filmmaking and the
dominance of celebrity actors and directors
obscure the contributions of screenwriters. If
your students are eager to break into the
Hollywood, Tales from the Script will provide
insights into the wild, mysterious, and competitive world of screenwriting. More than 50
legendary screenwriters were exclusively
interviewed, including Shane Black (Lethal
Weapon), John Carpenter (Halloween), Frank
Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), Nora
Ephron (When Harry Met Sally), William Goldman (The Princess Bride), David Hayter
(Watchmen), Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost), Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), and Ron Shelton (Bull
Durham). The stories behind the storytellers are as exciting, surprising, and inspirational as
the narratives of their celebrated films.
It! Books: 304 pp.
2010 978-0-06-185592-4 pb, $14.99 ($18.99 Can.)
Available in January 2010
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Screen Plays
Writing the Romantic

Comedy
How 25 Scripts Made It to a

Theater Near YouFor Better or
From Cute Meet to Joyous
Worse
Defeat: How To Write Screenplays
David S. Cohen
That Sell
Billy Mernit
In Screen Plays, longtime Variety reporter David

Cohen takes students down the long and
harrowing road every screenplay takes from idea
to script to screen. Through interviews with
some of Hollywoods top screenwritersas well
as many novices, some of who got lucky, and
some of who didntCohen explores what sets
apart blockbuster films from the train wrecks.
This first-ever guide to the genre teaches

students of all levels how to write audiencesatisfying romantic comedy screenplays.
Featuring case studies drawn from classic and
contemporary comedies as well as field-tested
writing exercises, Writing the Romantic Comedy
covers the essentials of character, theme, and plot
development.
Moving well beyond generic pronouncements and rules, Writing the Romantic Comedy guides writers to create real,
personal, and credible characters and plots that speak to the romantic in all of
us.Linda Venis, Director, UCLA Extension Writers Program
Harper paperbacks: 304 pages; index.
2001 978-0-06-093503-0 pb $15.00 ($17.50 Can.)
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Tracing the fortunes of 25 films, including

American Beauty, Gladiator, and Pay It Forward,
Cohen demonstrates that the story of how a
script was written, sold, developed, and filmed can be just as dramatic and fascinating as the
movie itselfespecially when the movie that results is a disaster.
HarperEntertainment: 352 pp.; index.
2008 978-0-06-118919-7 hc $25.95 ($27.95 Can.)
2009 978-0-06-143157-9 pb $15.99 ($19.99 Can.)
R omantic C omedy
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Writing Screenplays
That Sell
Smoke Signals
A Screenplay
Sherman Alexie
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for Writing and Selling to the
Smoke Signals is a rare and entertaining comic

treat that won both critical acclaim and
mainstream popularity, and a piece of storytelling that all screenwriters in training can learn
from. The success of the film put screenwriter
Sherman Alexiebestselling author of The
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indianon the
map. Critically acclaimed as one of the best
films of the year, Smoke Signals was also a
distinguished winner at the Sundance Film
Festival.
The most practical and best single book

on the subject.Hollywood Scriptwriter
Miramax Original: 192 pp.; illustrations.

1998 978-0-78-688392-9 pb $12.95 ($13.95 Can.)

1991 978-0-06-272500-4 pb $17.00 ($20.00 Can.)
S moke S ignals
Movies and TV, from Story Concept

to Development to Deal
Michael Hauge
In this concise, expert, and comprehensive
manual, Hollywood story editor and producer
Hague guides screenwriters through every step
of the writing and selling process.
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How to Shoot a Feature

Film for Under $10,000*
The Writer Got Screwed

(But Didnt Have To)
*And Not Go To Jail
A Screenwriters Guide to the

Legal and Business Practices of
Bret Stern
the Entertainment Industry
From the writer and director of the film festival

favorite R2PC (Road to Park City), comes this
comprehensive guide for every fledgling director
who has the passion but needs expert guidance
on making the leap from dreamer to filmmaker.
Brooke Wharton
A Hollywood entertainment and copyright
lawyer shows would-be screenwriters how to
protect their work, ensure that they get
compensated, find an agent, enter into a
contract, understand their contract, and avoid
getting screwed or sued along the way.
Humorous, practical and indispensable, How to

Shoot a Feature Film for Under $10,000 creates a
logical chronology and checklist for intrepid
filmmakers.
Assuming his readers have virtually no real
knowledge to navigating the path to Hollywood
nor the how-to smarts of making an actual film, Stern sticks to the basics. From budgeting
and script writing, to what equipment is used, from casting and catering to using the latest
in digital video and sound technology, from post production to film festivals, distribution
and beyond, Bret Stern will teach aspiring filmmakers everything they need to know about
making their first film.
A great book . . . an indispensable

resource for anyone who has ever
considered writing for the entertainment
industry.Elizabeth Daley, USC School
of Cinema/Television
1997 978-0-06-273236-1 pb, $14.99 ($18.99 Can.)
Harper paperbacks: 320 pp.; illustrated; index.

2002 978-0-06-008467-7 pb, $14.95 ($18.95 Can.)
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BUSINESS W RITING
The Seinfeld Scripts
The Long Tail
The First and Second Seasons
Why the Future of Business is
Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld
Selling Less of More
Writing for a television sitcom is a grueling art

form, and students will benefit from reading
some of the best scripts ever written.
Chris Anderson
Revised and Updated Edition
Chris Anderson reinvents the business book

with The Long Tail. In the most important
business book since The Tipping Point, Chris
Anderson shows how the future of commerce
and culture isnt in hits, the high-volume head
of a traditional demand curve, but in what used
to be regarded as missesthe endlessly long tail
of that same curve. He introduces a revolutionary concept in a way that is completely
understandable, making The Long Tail the perfect
example of what the new generation of business
books should be.

1998 978-0-060-95303-4 pb, $18.95 ($23.95 Can.)
The Long Tail is a rare achievement: it takes something seemingly familiarthe

realm of buying and sellingand makes us think about it in a completely new
way. This is a remarkably smart book, and also a refreshingly optimistic look at
the new rules of a world in which everyone can find something different to
enjoy. James Suroweicki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds
Hyperion: 288 pp.; index.
2008 978-1-40-130966-4 pb, $15.95 ($17.25 Can.)
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Effective Business
Writing
The Elements of
Persuasion
Strategies, Suggestions and
Use Storytelling to Pitch Better,

Sell Faster & Win More Business
Examples
Richard Maxwell & Robert Dickman
Second Edition, Revised and
The Elements of Persuasion makes one thing clear:

selling requires one central techniquethe
telling of a good story. It is really that simple.
Stories sell. Storytelling is innate in the human
psyche. Still, some of us are better at it than
others.
Maryann V. Piotrowski
The Elements of Persuasion explores the underlying principles of story, and shows how these
principles work together in real world events.
The book is written in a light, easy style, and is
formatted in alternating theoretical and practical chapters that are aimed at executives in
companies who need to sell their vision; marketing and sales professionals directly involved
in selling products and services; and designers, architects, and creative entrepreneurs who
need to explain their cutting-edge designs to the suits in a language both parties can
understand. In fact, this book is helpful to anyone who business depends on persuading
anyone of anything.
Updated
Effective Business Writing is the perfect tool to

teach your students how to write the letters and
memos that are so important to their business
careers. Whether they are writing an e-mail
message to a co-worker or a proposal to an
international colleague, this book will help them
choose an appropriate format, style, and tone.
The best book on business writing Ive
ever encountered.Steve Robbins,
Harvard Business School
1996 978-0-06-273381-8 pb, $12.95 ($16.99 Can.)
Collins Business: 256 pp.; index.

2007 978-00-6117903-7 hc, $19.95 ($25.99 Can.)
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Talking From 9 to 5
Writing That Works

How to Communicate Effectively
Women and Men at Work
in Business
Deborah Tannen
Third Edition
Talking from 9 to 5 brilliantly explains the

conversational ritual between men and
womenand the language barriers we
unintentionally erect in the business world. It is
a unique and invaluable guide to recognizing
the verbal power games and miscommunications
that cause good work to be underappreciated or
go unnoticed.
Kenneth Roman & Joel Raphaelson

This guide to the principles of business writing
provides tips for writing business letters, memos,
rsums, fund-raising, and sales letters.
A concise, practical guide to clear,
vigorous writing in professional life.
Michael C. Janeway, Dean, Medill School
of Journalism, Northwestern University

2001 978-0-380-71783-5 pb, $13.95 ($16.50 Can.)

2000 978-0-06-095643-1 pb, $14.95 ($18.99 Can.)
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How to Talk So People

Listen
On Speaking Well
How to Communicate Your Ideas
with Style, Substance, and Clarity
Connecting in Todays Workplace
Peggy Noonan
Sonya Hamlin
What Strunk and White have done for the

written word, Peggy Noonan has done for the
spoken word in this indispensable primer on
giving a speech.
How to Talk So People Listen gets right to

the point, in the straightforward style that
has made Sonya Hamlin a trusted and
valued advisor to scores of senior
executives. Its a must-read for any
executive who understands the importance of speaking clearly and persuasively
in a marketplace where the proliferation
of communications outlets makes it
increasingly challenging to be heard.
Jason H. Wright, Senior Vice President,
Communications & Public Affairs,
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Complete with tips and memorable examples,

On Speaking Well will help your students:
F
ind their own authentic voices
Ace the all-important first paragraph
U
se logic to move their audience
S trengthen their speeches with a vital element:
humor
espect simplicity and claritybig ideas need
R
small words
Present their speeches in the best way
Peggy Noonan packs a wallop of practical wisdom and insightful tips for rookie
and veteran speechmakers alike.Forbes
HarperBusiness: 336 pp.

2006 978-0-06-073407-7 pb, $12.95 ($16.95 Can.)

1999 978-0-06-098740-4 pb $13.00 ($15.00 Can.)
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W RITING C A REERS
Creating a Life Worth

Living
How to Get Happily

Published
A Practical Course in Career
A Complete and Candid Guide
Design for Artists, Innovators, and
Revised and Updated
Others Aspiring to a Creative Life
Fifth Edition
Carol Lloyd
Judith Appelbaum
Are your students looking for real solutions to

the problems of planning a creative career? Do
you find that most career counseling doesnt
speak to artists and performers?
The bestselling guide to getting published is

now even better than ever, with up-to-theminute advice on how to use electronic
mediato publish, get publicity, promotion
and sales, uncover information, and connect
with enthusiastic readers. Theres new material
on making deals with publishers, working
with small publishers, deciding whether to
self-publish, and boosting sales, whoever the
publisher is.
Combining the practicality of What Color is Your

Parachute? with the creative vision of The Artists
Way, Creating a Life Worth Living leads students
through proven, goal-oriented ways to design
the creative career theyve always wantedand
stay sane and solvent doing it.
Carol Lloyds Life Worth Living workshop helped me to identify what I want to
achieve and the obstacles I had to overcome. Carols intellectual acuity and
emotional maturity made the exercises she devised particularly effective and
memorable.Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago
1997 978-0-06-095243-3 pb, $14.95 ($16.25 Can.)
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who wants to do it right.Elizabeth Geiser, University of Denver Publishing
Institute
1998 978-0-06-273509-6 pb, $15.95 ($19.99 Can.)
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Prime Green
A Broom of Ones Own
Remembering the Sixties
Words on Writing, Housecleaning
Robert Stone
& Life
Nancy Peacock
The memoir of award-winning novelist Robert
Stone perfectly invokes the magical decade of
the 60s from the New York of Kline and
DeKooning, to the French Quarter in New
Orleans, to the psychedelic California of Ken
Kesey, and everything in between.
Erudite but blunt, both tender and
hard-boiled, the part-time tabloid hack
turned novelist knows how to stick a
sentence. He knows how to fly down the
high road of ideas, then suddenly crank
the steering wheel of style and take us for
a tough ride along the ditches. Hes great
on peopleon joining their abstract insides to their outsidesand hes even
better on places . . . good night, all you dreamy children of Aquarius. Thanks to
the wise recollections of Robert Stone, youve had your bedtime story now.
Ecco: 272 pp.; 8-page b&w photo insert.
2007 P.S. 978-0-06-095777-3 pb, $13.95 ($16.50 Can.)
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varied rsum: house cleaner, bartender,
carpenter, locksmith, costumer, baker, waitress,
assistant drum maker, and newspaper deliverer.
But throughout it all, she was always a writer
the author of two highly regarded novels.
In these honest and witty essays, Peacock
explores the writing lifeoffering useful lessons
on subjects such as inspiration, craft, and
criticism as well as encouragement to all
writersregardless of what their current job
may be.
Witty, wise, and wickedly honest, A Broom of Ones Own sweeps away pretension
about the writers life. This is an entertaining and heartening romp through the
daily life of a successful working writer.Pat Schneider, author of Writing
Alone and With Others
2008 P.S. 978-0-06-135787-9 pb $13.95 ($17.99 Can)
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GR A M M A R , STYLE , REFEREN C E ,
A ND L A NGUA GE
Errors in English and

Ways to Correct Them
Mind The Gaffe!

A Troubleshooters Guide to
English Style and Usage
Fourth Edition
R. L.Trask
Harry Shaw
Mind the Gaffe! has become a must-read among

writers, educators, and language-mavens
everyone who needs to know the difference
between lesser and fewer, disinterested and uninterested, and hire, rent, and charter. Practical,
bracing, and wonderfully readable, here is a new
style guide that is destined to become a classic.
Using extensive exercises and examples, Shaw

provides a quick reference guide to correct
usage, sentence structure, spelling, punctuation,
pronunciation, and a dictionary of terms in
grammar and composition.
1993 978-0-06-461044-5 pb, $13.95 ($17.99 Can.)
A usage guide that will actually be used:

Unlike some of the weightier tomes in this
field, comprehensive but daunting, this
book seems to follow the 80/20 rule by
offering a straightforward alphabetical list
of terms (assume, presume; imbue, inculcate) writers are especially likely to
mangle.Christian Science Monitor
2006 978-00-6113220-9, pb, $13.95 (N/C)
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English Grammar
Choose the Right Word
A HarperCollins College Outline
A Contemporary Guide to
David I. Daniels, M.S. & Barbara Daniels
Selecting the Precise Word for
In English Grammar, the basics and finer points

of English grammar are thoroughly explained,
with examples and exercises for learning or
brushing up on speech and writing. This
comprehensive guidebook includes: sentence
basics, nouns and articles, verbs, adjectives and
adverbs, conjunctions, and prepositions.
S. I. Hayakawa
Eugene Ehrlich, Revising Editor
Collins Reference: 288 pp.; glossary; index; bibliography.

1991 978-0-06-467109-5 pb, $16.95 ($18.50 Can.)
Every Situation
Choose the Right Word is a unique blend of

thesaurus, dictionary and manual of English
language with over 1,000 entries that compare
and contrast 6,000 commonly used synonyms
and related words to help students find the right
word.
Word relationships are carefully selected
and clearly defined to reflect [contemporary] usage. The guide may also be
commended for its clear and readable style.Booklist
1994 978-0-06-273131-9 pb, $23.95 ($31.50 Can.)
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Rogets Thesaurus
Rogets International
Thesaurus
Sixth Edition
Robert L. Chapman
Sixth Edition
Edited by Barbara Ann Kipfer

Robert L. Chapman, Consulting Editor
This abridged edition contains over 230,000

words, nearly 3,000 of which are newly added.
The worlds bestselling thesaurus contains over

325,000 words, as well as superior depth of
information, efficiency, and ease of use.
Harper: 960 pp.

2007 978-0-06-009479-9 mm, $5.99 ($6.99 Can.)
Collins: 1280 pp.

2001 978-0-06-273693-2 hc, $20.99 ($24.99 Can.)
ollins Reference: 1280 pp.
C
2002 978-0-06-093544-3 pb, $16.95 ($21.50 Can.)
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The Highly Selective

Dictionary for the
Extraordinarily Literate
Collins Websters
Dictionary
With over 45,000 definitions, including slang,
business, and computer terminology, this is one
of the most up-to-date dictionaries on the
market.
Eugene Ehrlich
This book presents only the most interesting
words and their concise definitionsplus short
discussions of words most often misused.
Harper: 608 pp.

2007 978-0-06-055782-9 mm, $5.99 ($7.99 Can.)

1997 978-0-06-270190-9 hc, $17.00 ($21.50 Can.)
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Dictionary of Golden
Adjectives for the

Thesaurus for the
Eugene Ehrlich
A unique and impressive thesaurus that provides

only the most unusual words for each entry.
Eugene Ehrlich
This definitive collection of golden adjectives

was selected for the extraordinarily discriminating user.

1994 978-0-06-270016-2 hc, $17.00 $21.50 Can.)

2002 978-0-06-018636-4 hc, $19.95 ($25.99 Can.)
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The Barnhart Concise

Dictionary of
Etymology
Bents Readers
Encyclopedia
FIFTH Edition
Edited by Bruce Murphy

Long recognized as the outstanding reference on
world literature, this new, updated, and revised
edition of Bents Readers Encyclopedia is the one
against which all others are measured, and is the
single-most complete one-volume encyclopedia
available for those with a serious interest in the
subject.
The entries explore all aspects of literature from
around the world: biographies of poets and
playwrights, novelists and belle trists; plot synopses and character sketches from important
works; historical data on literary schools, movements, terms and awards; myths and legends;
and more.
The Origins of American English

Words
Robert K. Barnhart
Written in a fresh, accessible style, this book
provides the derivations of over 21,000
English-language words without resorting to the
use of abbreviations, symbols, or technical
terminology. Drawing on the most current
American scholarship, and focusing on the core
words in contemporary English, The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology is both a
diverting browse and a thinking persons Bible.
1995 978-0-06-270084-1 hc, $55.00 ($65.00 Can.)

2008 978-0-06-089016-2 hc, $60.00 ($72.00 Can.)
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Collins Pocket and Collins Gem Dictionaries and Thesauri

Small in size yet big in scope, these dictionaries and thesauri are perfect for slipping into a pocket, backpack or briefcase.
They offer comprehensive listings of definitions and synonyms, for communicating effectively and efficiently.
Collins Pocket Websters

Dictionary
Collins Gem Websters

Dictionary
Second Edition
Third Edition

2007 978-0-06-114192-8 pb, $11.95 (N/C)

2005 978-0-06-082571-3 pb, $6.95 (N/C)
Collins Pocket Websters

Thesaurus
Collins Gem Thesaurus
Oxford American Dictionary

Heald Colleges Edition
Oxford University Press

Contains concise definitions, preferred spellings, and the
latest pronunciation system.
Highly recommended.Library Journal
Avon: 1120 pp.
1982 978-0-380-60772-3 mm, $5.99 ($7.99 Can.)
Third Edition
2005 978-0-06-082572-0 pb, $6.95 (N/C)
Second Edition
2007 978-0-06-114204-8 pb, $11.95 (N/C)
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The Mother Tongue
Made in America
English & How It Got That Way
An Informal History of the
Bill Bryson
English Language in United States
Bill Bryson
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill
Bryson explores the remarkable history,
eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the
English language.
A witty and irreverent scamper through

the vocabulary of American English.
Bryson offers a playfully anecdotal
account of the etymology of distinctive
words and phrases that help to create a
distinctly American English.Publishers
Weekly
Bryson traces the English language from

the Neanderthal man of 30,000 years ago
to the present. Interestingly, he contrasts
the language as it developed simultaneously in various locations. He also
presents examples of the evolution of
words and their spellings. The book is
well researched and informative; the
thorough index will aid novices in the
exploration of the language.School
Library Journal

2001 978-0-380-71381-3 pb, $14.99 ($18.99 Can.)

2001 978-0-380-71543-5 pb, $14.95 ($16.25 Can.)
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Dont Know Much

About Mythology
Morris Dictionary of
Word and Phrase
Origins
Everything You Need to Know

About the Greatest Stories in
Second Edition
Human History But Never Learned
William & Mary Morris
Kenneth C. Davis
The first edition of the Morris Dictionary of Word

and Phrase Origins detailed the fascinating and
little known stories behind thousands of
words and phrases that we use every day. In this
second edition, the authors update and expand
their classic work to keep pace with our
ever-changing language.
Davis explores the great legends of the world

and their implications for art, science, religion
and culture throughout history.
An enthusiastic introduction to world
mythology. . . . Fascinating.School
Library Journal
2006 978-0-06-093257-2 pb, $14.95 ($19.50 Can.)

1988 978-0-06-015862-0 hc, $38.00 (N/C)
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Red Herrings and

White Elephants
Brewers Dictionary of
Phrase and Fable
Seventeenth Edition
The Origins of the Phrases We Use
Revised by John Ayto
Every Day
Albert Jack
he new Brewers Dictionary of Phrase & Fable of
T
the 21st century maintains and respects the
books 135-year-old tradition, while offering a
wealth of fascinating new material to reflect the
phrase and fable of an ever-changing world.
With more than one million words of text and
19,000 entries1,500 of them brand newthis
seventeenth edition is the largest and most
comprehensive to date, and a must for every
reference bookshelf.
From bringing home the bacon to leaving no

stone unturned, Albert Jack recounts the
amazing and sometimes downright bizarre
stories behind many of our most familiar and
eccentric modes of expression.
HarperCollins: 272 pp.; illustrated; index.
2006 978-0-06-084337-3 hc, $15.95 ($18.95 Can.)

2005 978-0-06-112120-3 hc, $55.00 ($69.95 Can.)
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The Power of Babel
Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and

Spuds
A Natural History of Language
John McWhorter
Ingenious Tales of Words and Their

Origins
In this accessible book about the natural history

of language, linguistic professor John McWhorter ranges across linguistic theory, geography,
history, and pop culture to tell the fascinating
story of how thousands of very different
languages have evolved from a single, original
source in a natural process similar to biological
evolution.
Michael Quinion
This delightful reference skewers commonly
accepted word origin mythsrevealing the true
story of a word or phrases origin.
Whenever I look up the origins of idioms,
they seem to derive from some awful,
brutish practice of the 18th-century
British navy. How refreshing to find out
from Michael Quinions fascinating book
that they sometimes come from somewhere else!Lynne Truss, author of Eats,
Shoots, and Leaves
2006 978-0-06-085153-8 pb, $12.95 (N/C)
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McWhorter offers a sweeping survey of

peoples movements around the globe
and the evolution of languages.
Entertaining . . . and . . . accessible.
Science News
2003 978-0-06-052085-4 pb, $13.95 ($16.50 Can.)
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Empires of the Word
Dictionary of American
Slang
A Language History of the World
Nicholas Ostler
Fourth Edition
Robert L. Chapman & Barbara Ann Kipfer
[A] monumental new book . . . Ostler

furnishes many fresh insights, useful
historical anecdotes and charming
linguistic oddities . . . His massive
overview of major languages in world
history puts the current global spread of
English in perspective.Chicago Tribune
The classic slang dictionary is now updated for

the 21st century with more than 1500 new
words and definitionsfrom abandominiums to
zoom on.
2007 978-0-06-117646-3 hc, $45.00 ($53.00 Can.)

Also available
American Slang
The Abridged Edition of the Dictionary of American Slang

Second Edition
Robert L. Chapman
1998 978-0-06-273293-4 pb, $16.95 ($18.50 Can.)
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A masterly comparative analysis of

empires linguistic effects throughout
history . . . Ostler writes in a concise
yet engaging manner, displaying
an impressive grasp of the history of
languages . . . This book is accessible
to anyone with an interest in language.Library Journal
Harper Perennial: 640 pp.; maps and charts throughout; index.
2006 978-0-06-093572-6 pb, $17.95 ($22.95 Can.)
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By Jove!
Born to Kvetch
Brush Up Your Mythology
Yiddish Language and Culture in
Michael Macrone
All of Its Moods
Michael Wex
Both an entertaining handbook to
classical mythology and a revealing
catalog of divinely inspired word origins.
Booknews
Born to Kvetch is a smart and witty portrait of

Yiddish and its relationship to both Jewish
culture and American life.
Wex explains Yiddish culture by unraveling, in great detail, the words and phrases
used by Yiddish speakers in the various
areas of their lives. In doing so, he draws
deeply on the complex traditional and
religious roots of Jewish culture while
engaging in what can only be called
national psychobiography. The results are
a joy to behold.Washington Post

1994 978-0-06-272019-1 pb, $13.95 ($16.50 Can.)

2006 P.S. 978-0-06-113217-9 pb, $13.99 ($17.50 Can.)
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The Story of Yiddish
Just Say Nu
Yiddish for Every Occasion (When
How a Mish-mosh of Languages
English Just Wont Do)
Saved the Jews
Michael Wex
Neal Karlen
With verve, lan, and something only a

non-Yiddish speaker would call chutzpah,
Michael Wex returns to the linguistic
mother lode that yielded Born to Kvetch
[and] gets down to the everyday business
of putting Yiddish to use.New York Times
That Yiddish is a mirror of Jewish history,

thought, and practicefor better and worse
underlies Neal Karlens narrative, as he charts
Yiddish from its beginnings as a minor dialect in
11th century France and Italy, to the time before
World War II when 13 million spoke the
language; and on to unlikely resuscitation and
electrifying 21st century renaissance.

2008 P.S. 978-0-06-165732-0 pb, $14.95 ($16.25 Can.)

2008 978-0-06-083711-2 hc, $25.95 ($27.95 Can.)
2009 978-0-06-083712-9 pb, $13.99 ($17.99 Can.)
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Spanglish
Proust and the Squid
The Making of a New American
The Story and Science of the
Language
Reading Brain
Ilan Stavans
Maryanne Wolf
Complete with over 6,000 entries, this

marvelous linguistic guide by award winning
author Ilan Stavans explains why the emergence
of Spanglish is a viable and important marker of
the Latino communitys influence on American
culture.
A preeminent researcher known for her work in

dyslexia offers an eloquent book about how the
brain learned to read and in the process changed
the way we as humans think.
As the author explains, human beings were
never born to read; we invented reading only a
few thousand years ago. And with this invention,
we changed the very organization of our brain,
which in turn expanded the ways we were able
to think, which altered the intellectual evolution
of our species.

2004 978-0-06-008776-0 pb, $13.95 ($16.50 Can.)
Using a vivid and elegant multidisciplinary

approach in the tradition of Jared Diamond or John McWhorter, she explains both the
far-reaching effect that written language has had on human development as well as the
extraordinarily complex cognitive and perceptual feat of learning to read and write.
Harper: 320 pp.; illustrated throughout; index.
2007 978-0-06-018639-5 hc, $25.95 ($32.95 Can.)
Harper Perennial: 336 pp.; illustrated throughout; index.
2008 978-0-06-093384-5 pb, $14.95 ($18.99 Can.)
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The Language Instinct
Words That Work

Its Not What You Say, Its What
How the Mind Creates Language
People Hear
Steven Pinker
Revised, Updated Edition
Steven Pinker, well-known for his revolutionary

theory of how children acquire language, lucidly
explains everything you always wanted to know
about language: how it works, how children
learn it, how it changes, how the brain
computes it, and how it evolves.
Frank Luntz
Words are importantevery writer knows that.
The power of ones word choice is demonstrated
most aptly in Words That Work. Dr. Frank Luntz,
language architect and public opinion guru, not
only raises the curtain on the craft of effective
language, but also offers priceless insight on how
to find and use the right words to get what you
want out of life. Dr. Luntz teaches about the
phenomenon of transforming mere words into
an effective arsenal for the war of perception we
all wage each and every day.
Words That Work deserves an attentive read.
Mr. Luntz offers a fair amount of good advice to anyone who must communicate publiclymost important, be the message. By this he means that if you
want to talk the talk and be believed, you must walk the walk which is to say,
you must mean what you say and act on it. Integrity sells. Wall Street Journal
The new editions P.S. section contains Pinkers

most recent thoughts on language and cognitive
development, as well updates on each chapter,
including the ongoing debate between Pinker
and linguist Noam Chomsky, the natural history
of language development in the news, and over
80 books and resources that Pinker recommends.
A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book.New York Review of Books
Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 576 pp.; index.
2007 978-0-06133646-1 pb, $15.99 ($19.99 Can.)
Hyperion: 368 pp.

2008 978-1-40-130929-9 pb, $15.95 ($17.25 Can.)
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I Never Metaphor
I Didnt Like
Words and Rules

The Ingredients of Language
Steven Pinker
A Comprehensive Compilation of
Historys Greatest Analogies,
Using amusing examples and radical insights,

Pinker seeks to explain the profound mysteries
of our miraculous human ability for language.
Dr. Mardy Grothe
Pinker is now an established

public intellectual, the most visible
representative of the new field of cognitive
science, linguistics and experimental
psychology. . . . [This book] is a gem.
New York Times
Dr. Mardy Grothe brings his attention to the

metaphor, perhaps the most versatile tool a
person has in trying to express a powerful idea.
Drawing heavily from literature of alltypes and
stylesfrom the classic Greeks to the present
dayhe shows the metaphor in all its might.
Metaphors, and Similes

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Oxymoronica
Every Book Its Reader
Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom from Historys

Greatest Wordsmiths
The Power of the Printed Word to

Stir the World
Nicholas A. Basbanes
2004 978-0-06-053699-2 hc; $14.99 ($18.99 Can.)
From our leading author of books about books

(David McCullough) comes an exploration of
what books have most influenced our culture,
through interviews with several of our most
accomplished bibliophiles.
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Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from

Historys Great Wits and Wordsmiths
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Every Book Its Reader reminds us that

books, in all their myriad forms, are
necessary equipment for living. They set
some on the wrong path, but, as the
majority of Basbanes studies attest, these
bookish inspirations have been mostly for
the good.Los Angeles Times
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A Splendor of Letters
Patience & Fortitude
The Permanence of Books in an
Wherein a Colorful Cast of
Impermanent World
Determined Book Collectors,

Dealers, and Librarians Go About
the Quixotic Task of Preserving a

Legacy
Basbanes offers a consideration of the many

pressing issues that surround the role of books in
contemporary society, such as the willful
destruction of books and libraries in Sarajevo,
Tibet, and Cambodia, and the spirited efforts to
restore them.
Basbanes always presents literature in
terms of its universal human relevance.
It would be hard to imagine anyone who
more genuinely grasps the infinite
meaning of literature, which, like a
message in a bottle tossed on the waves
of time, continues a dialogue of hope between writers past, present and future.
Here is a colorful, narrative history of the
preservation of knowledge in book form
through the ages, from the author of the
critically acclaimed A Gentle Madness.
Compulsory for anyone seriously
interested in books or curious about the
manic nature of collecting.New York
Times Book Review
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