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Anne Lamott recounts her personal experiences to reveal her writing techniques and how she overcomes obstacles that interfere with the writing flow. She offers concrete suggestions about character, plot, setting, and other topics of interest to writers. She also offers advice about how to navigate through the dark underbelly feelings of self-doubt, inadequacy, and jealousy that are inevitable parts of any writer's experience.

Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work, subjecting them to wry scrutiny.

Style and Story is for those who wish to craft nonfiction texts that do more than simply relay facts and arguments. The author explains how writers can employ literary tools and strategies to strengthen their work. With advice gleaned from years of teaching writing to graduate students, Pyne offers pragmatic guidance on how to create powerful nonfiction, whether for an academic or popular audience.

LUTHER AUTHOR. [This] is a ... guide for writers at all stages of their writing lives. Drawing on new research into creative writers and their relationship with the physical world, Amy E. Weldon shows us how to become more attentive observers of the world and find inspiraion in any environment. Including exercises, writing prompts and sample texts and spanning multiple genres from novels and nonfiction to poetry, this is the ideal starting point for anyone beginning to write seriously and offers refreshing perspectives for experienced writers seeking new inspiration.

With contributions from over 50 experts - poets, novelists, dramatists, publishers, editors, tutors, critics and scholars - from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Australia, this is the essential guide to writing, and getting published, in the English-speaking world.

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Print copies of the New Yorker back to 1990 are in the Main Stacks, call number AP2 .N67.
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Tin House Magazine went online in 2019, and stopped publishing original work in February 2020.
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Published by Middlebury College.
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Published by the University of Iowa.
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General interest arts, culture, and politics magazine, one of the longest-running magazines in the U.S.
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Published by Kenyon College.
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Oldest literary magazine in the U.S., now published by the University of Northern Iowa.
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Print issues beginning in 1964 are in the Main Stacks, call number AP2 .N7.
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