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Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series
Diana Peterfreund, Lili Wilkinson, Robin Wasserman, Linda Gerber, Charles Beaumont, Ted Chiang, Sara Beth Durst, Will Shetterly, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Gail Sidonie Sobat, Delia Sherman, J. Fitzgerald McCurdy, Rosemary Clement-Moore, Janette Rallison · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorEnder's World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card · 304 pages
Mapping the World of Harry Potter: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Explore the Bestselling Series of All Time
Leah Wilson · 240 pages
Beyond the Wall: Exploring George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire
James Lowder · 230 pages
"The epic game of thrones chronicled in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series has captured the imaginations of millions of readers. In Beyond the wall, bestselling authors and acclaimed critics offer up thought-provoking essays and compelling insights..."--P.[4] of Cover.
The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles
Gregory Bassham · 288 pages
"The Ultimate Harry Potter: Hogwarts for Muggles, is a fresh and distinctive report on the great ideas in the series. All the authors of these chapters have had the advantage of thinking through their chosen issues, and writing up their conclusions after the entire Potter storyline was complete, and Rowling had even had her say in public about things that never made it into the pages of the offici
Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader
Holly Black, Kate Milford, Diana Peterfreund, Sara Ryan, Scott Tracey, Robin Wasserman, Kendare Blake, Gwenda Bond, Sarah Rees Brennan, Rachel Caine, Sarah Cross, Kami Garcia, Michelle Hodkin, Kelly Link
Contains: Introduction by Cassandra Clare Unhomely Places by Kate Milford The Art of War by Sarah Cross Sharper Than a Seraph Blade by Diana Peterfreund When Laws Are Made to Be Broken by Robin Wasserman Simon Lewis: Jewish, Vampire, Hero by Michelle Hodkin Why the Best Friend Never Gets the Girl by Kami Garcia Brotherly Love by Kendare Blake Asking for a Friend by Gwenda Bond (Not) Fo
MFA vs. NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction
Chad Harbach · 312 pages
"Chad Harbach and contributors map out the 'two cultures' of American fiction: MFA programs and NYC publishing. In a widely read essay titled 'MFA vs. NYC,' bestselling novelist Chad Harbach (The Art of Fielding) argued that the American literary scene has split into two cultures: New York publishing versus university MFA programs. This book brings together established writers, MFA professors and
Home and Exile
Chinua Achebe · 115 pages
More personally revealing than anything Achebe has written, Home and Exile-the great Nigerian novelist's first book in more than ten years-is a major statement on the importance of stories as real sources of power, especially for those whose stories have traditionally been told by outsiders. In three elegant essays, Achebe seeks to rescue African culture from narratives written about it by Europe
A Place in the Country
W.G. Sebald · 208 pages
W. G. Sebald's meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind--and the last of this great writer's major works to be translated into English.
Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
Susan Hill · 236 pages
Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time. The discovery inspired her to embark on a year-long voyage through her books, forsaking new purchases in order to get to know her own collection again. A book which is left on a shelf for a decade i
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Mary Ruefle · 352 pages
"Over the course of fifteen years, Mary Ruefle delivered a lecture every six months to a group of poetry graduate students. Collected here for the first time, these lectures include "Poetry and the Moon," "Someone Reading A Book Is A Sign Of Order In The World," and "Lectures I Will Never Give." Intellectually virtuosic, instructive, and experiential, Madness, Rack, and Honey resists definition, d
Encounter
Milan Kundera · 192 pages
Milan Kundera's new collection of essays is a passionate defence of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty.
More Baths, Less Talking
Nick Hornby · 135 pages
Shares selections from the author's column in "The Believer" that discuss books he has bought and books he has read, and offers suggestions for great reads in every genre.
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Maggie Nelson · 304 pages
Discusses whether the brutal imagery present in reality and entertainment will shock society into a less alienated state and help create a just social order or whether focusing on representations of cruelty makes society more cruel.
On Reading, Writing and Living with Books
Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Leigh Hunt, E.M. Forster · 96 pages
Henry Miller on Writing
Henry Miller · 216 pages
Miller's own views on his struggle to perfect his style, his search within himself, his methods in writing, and his ideas on obscenity.
The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives
Lee Child, Alexander McCall Smith, Stephen Hunter, Faye Kellerman, John Lescroart, Jonathan Kellerman, Laura Lippman, David Morrell, Carol O'Connell, Robert B. Parker, Ridley Pearson, Anne Perry, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, Ian Rankin, Ken Bruen, Michael Connelly, John Connolly, Robert Crais, Je
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Jorge Luis Borges · 205 pages
A New Dawn: Your Favorite Authors on Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series
Ellen Hopkins
Fans of the literary phenomenon known as the Twilight series can't help wanting more. A New Dawn gives it to them, inviting readers to join some of their favorite YA authors as they look at the series with fresh eyes and fall in love with Edward, Bella and the rest of Forks, Wash., all over again. Edited by bestselling author Ellen Hopkins, A New Dawn is packed with the same debates readers engage
The Language Of The Night: Essays On Fantasy And Science Fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin · 276 pages
Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books
Wendy Lesser · 231 pages
"An exhilarating volume that will ratchet up the joy for all reading groups "Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics," writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Why I Read, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing one of the most distinguished little magazines in the country, The Threepenn