How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee
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Category: Books about Books & Writing
From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in art. As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incomparable” by Junot Díaz, and “incendiary” by the ...Show more
The Enchanter: An Adventure in the Land of Nabokov by Lila Azam Zanganeh
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Category: Books about Books & Writing
Plunging into the enchanted and luminous worlds of Speak, Memory, Ada, or Ardor; and the infamous Lolita, Lila Azam Zanganeh seeks out the Nabokovian experience of time, memory, sexual passion, nature, loss, love in all its forms, language in all its allusions. She explores his Russian childhood, his Eu ...Show more
Devotion by Patti Smith
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Category: Books about Books & Writing | Series: Why I Write Ser.
The national bestseller from the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, exploring the nature of creative invention A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic--its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audi ...Show more
Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp by Jozef Czapski
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Category: Books about Books & Writing
The first translation of painter and writer Józef Czapski's inspiring lectures on Proust, first delivered in a prison camp in the Soviet Union during World War II.During the Second World War, as a prisoner of war in a Soviet camp, and with nothing but memory to go on, the Polish artist and soldier Józef ...Show more
Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape by Laurie Lee
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Category: Books about Books & Writing
'Living in our valley was like broad beans in a pod, so snug and enclosed and protective.'Laurie Lee left his childhood home in the Cotswolds when he was nineteen, but it remained with him throughout his life, until, many years later, he returned for good.In this never before published collection, Lauri ...Show more
The Art of Reading - An Illustrated History of Books in Paint by Jamie Camplin; Maria Ranauro
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Category: Books about Books & Writing
"Why do artists love books?" This volume takes this tantalizingly simple question as a starting point to reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts. First looking at the development of printed books and the simultaneous emergence of the modern figure of the artist, The Art of Rea ...Show more
Q's Legacy - A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books by Hélène Hanff
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Category: Books about Books & Writing
This memoir tells the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write 84, Charing Cross Road, and how its success changed her. Hanff recalls her serendipitous discovery of a volume of lectures by a Cambridge don, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. She devoured Q's book, and, wanting to read all the books he r ...Show more
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Hélène Hanff
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Category: Books about Books & Writing
Nancy Mitford meets Nora Ephron in the pages of The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff's delightful travelogue about her "bucket list" trip to London When devoted Anglophile Helene Hanff is invited to London for the English publication of 84, Charing Cross Road--in which she shares two decades ...Show more
Pen to Paper: Artists' Handwritten Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art by Mary Savig
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Category: Books about Books & Writing
Even in this age of emails, texts, and tweets, there is an ongoing fascination with the simple act of putting pen to paper. Associations such as the International Association of Master Penmen and the Society for Italic Handwriting keep the traditions of calligraphy and penmanship alive, hand-writing typ ...Show more