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  • Self-Publishing For Academics

    by Helen Kara, Nathan Ryder ...
    This book is for anyone who is considering self-publishing their academic writing. Its authors are Helen Kara (who has a cross-disciplinary PhD in social policy and management) and Nathan Ryder (who has a PhD in mathematics). Between us we have self-published several e-books for doctoral students, which you can find online, as well as zines and blogs. Self-publishing is full of challenges, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • LARB Digital Edition: The Year in Fiction

    by Lisa Locascio, Nathan Deuel, Rita Williams, Katie Ryder ...
    The reviews selected for this month’s Digital Edition, Foreign Lands, Invisible Cities,” are a sampler of the places we readers of fiction visited this year. From the flood-prone hills of Haiti to the common courtyards of Queens, New York, fiction reminds us that everywhere we go we find humans who love and lust and scheme and hope. Some of the reviews mix personal history with criticism: Lisa ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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  • The Empathy Exams

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  • The Emotional Craft of Fiction

    How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

    by Donald Maass ...
    The essential guide to evoking emotional experiences in your readersWriters might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, but none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel.Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers. You ... Read more

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  • Writing Fiction

    A Guide to Narrative Craft

    by Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ned Stuckey-French ...
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  • Recollections of My Nonexistence

    A Memoir

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    **Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for BiographyLonglisted for The Orwell Prize for Political WritingAn electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent, from the author of Orwell's Roses**In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s ... Read more

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  • Stein On Writing

    A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies

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  • The Wave in the Mind

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  • A Contract with God

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    The first graphic novel—a mesmerizing fictional chronicle of a universal American experience.Through a quartet of four interwoven stories, A Contract With God express the joy, exuberance, tragedy, and drama of life on the mythical Dropsie Avenue in the Bronx. This is the legendary book that launched a new art form and reaffirmed Will Eisner as one of the great pioneers of American graphics. ... Read more

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