Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+5053+6669 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238934 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1059581 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1188307 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364765 A foodwriter and graduate of the French Culinary Institute recounts her time apprenticing at four high-end restaurants around the world, including under the famed chef Wylie Dufresne at the molecular gastronomy hotspot wd-50. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1299182 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1222294 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1259768 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1164184 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1166997 This volume contains inspiring, funny, and heartwarming stories about cats told from the perspective of Deweys Mom, librarian Myron. Includes never-before-told stories about Dewey, along with other touching cat tales. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1174230 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1053279 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1044112 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1043934 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=993221 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=994835 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1148523 A course on comic creation--for college classes or for independent study--that centers on storytelling and concludes with making a finished comic. With chapters on lettering, story structure, and panel layout, the fifteen lessons offered--each complete with homework, extra-credit activities and supplementary reading suggestions--provide a solid introduction for people interested in making their own comics. Additional resources, lessons, and after-class help are available on the accompanying website, http://www.dw-wp.com. --From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=879866 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=589813 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=616104 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=583408 Transform your food passion into words with Will Write for Food, the first-ever guide to the ins and outs of food writing, from one of todays experts. Offering a thorough, practical program this groundbreaking book includes: Advice from dozens of award-winning writers including Jeffrey Steingarten, Calvin Trillin, and Molly ONeill, plus well-known editors and literary agents, Comprehensive chapters ranging from restaurant reviewing to memoir writing to getting published, Focused exercises to stimulate creativity and organize thought, Expert-author Dianne Jacobs own tips and suggestions sharing more than 25 years of experience in the field Whether youre looking to break into professional food writing, or simply wish to create a family heirloom cookbook, Will Write for Food is the first and only guidebook youll need to follow your food dreams.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=630825 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=500522 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=557228 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=538288 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=486941 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=425841 As usual Bill Bryson says it best: English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where cleave can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word set has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participial adjective; where if you can run fast you are moving swiftly; but if you are stuck fast you are not moving at all; [and] where colonel, freight, once, and ache are strikingly at odds with their spellings. As a copy editor for the London Times in the early 198Os, Bill Bryson felt keenly the lack of an easy-to-consult, authoritative guide to avoiding the traps and snares in English, and so he brashly suggested to a publisher that he should write one. Surprisingly; the proposition was accepted, and for a sum of money carefully gauged not to cause embarrassment or feelings of overworth, he proceeded to write that book - his first, inaugurating his stellar career.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=423824 As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday - there may be a lot of them, but you cant have too many and theres always an audience of the faithful. And while Making a Literary Life is ostensibly a book that teaches you how to write, it really teaches you how to make your interior life into your exterior life, how to find and join that community of like-minded souls youre sure is out there somewhere.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=407153 In the tradition of Rilkes Letters to a Young Poet, Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers, revealing in the process his deepest beliefs about our common literary endeavor. A writer, in his view, is a being seized by an insatiable appetite for creation, a rebel and a dreamer. But dreams, when set down on paper, require disciplined development, and so Vargas Llosa undertakes to supply the tools of transformation. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe - Borges, Bierce, Celine, Cortazar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet - he lays bare the inner workings of fiction, examining time, space, style, structure, all the while urging young novelists not to lose touch with the elemental urge to create. Conversational, eloquent, and effortlessly erudite, this little book is destined to be read and reread by young writers, old writers, would-be writers, and all those with a stake in the world of letters.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=442519 A wonderful gift for writers, this heartwarming book presents short essays from 30 famous writers and entertainers as they ponder their favorite Snoopy at the typewriter strip. Monte Schulz is the son of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=454609 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=966360 On Writing begins with a mesmerizing account of Kings childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. A series of vivid memories from adolescence, college, and the struggling years that led up to his first novel, Carrie, will afford readers a fresh and often very funny perspective on the formation of a writer. King next turns to the basic tools of his trade - how to sharpen and multiply them through use, and how the writer must always have them close at hand. He takes the reader through crucial aspects of the writers art and life, offering practical and inspiring advice on everything from plot and character development to work habits and rejection. On Writing culminates with a profoundly moving account of how Kings overwhelming need to write spurred him toward recovery, and brought him back to his life.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=276728 Sin and Syntax is more than just a style manual with examinations of sentence structure and parts of speech. In addition to spelling out the basic rules, Constance Hale teaches you when - and how - to effectively break them. Chock full of examples from traditional and nontraditional prose - from advertising jingles to song lyrics to literary classics - Sin and Syntax shows you why learning to sin will make you a better writer.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=265273 One of the great writers of the twentieth century offers an exhilarating workout for writers of narrative fiction or nonfiction. With her sharp mind and wit and a delightful sense of playfulness, Le Guin has turned a successful workshop into a self-guided voyage of discovery for a writer working alone, a writing group, or a class. Steering the Craft is concerned with the basic elements of narrative: how a story is told, what moves it and what clogs it. This book does not plod through plot, character, beginning-middle-and-end. Nor does it discuss writing as self-expression, as therapy, or as spiritual adventure. Each topic includes examples that clarify and exercises that intensify awareness of the techniques of storytelling.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=275020 With rousing enthusiasm, David Michael Kaplan introduces you to his unique brand of revision: a process of discovery in which your storys words, structure, even its very meaning may change as it grows stronger. He takes you through every stage of the writing process, providing strategies and criteria to help pinpoint the problems in your work and fix them. In addition to illustrating his points with examples from contemporary writers, Kaplan traces the evolution of three of his own stories from journal entries to first (and subsequent) drafts to finished pieces. He shows the changes he made - from single words to entire characters and story lines - and explains why he made them.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=93475 When he died in 1910, Mark Twain left behind more than a legacy of timeless novels and essays. He also bequeathed a wealth of useful - and funny - opinions on style, literary habits, and the writers role in society. Nearly a century later, Twains thoughts still provide information and inspiration for the novelist, essayist, public speaker, or armchair aficionado of the English language. Compiled by veteran Twain enthusiast Mark Dawidziak, Mark My Words offers tips from Twain as true today as when he wrote them. Here youll find the famous essay Fenimore Coopers Literary Offenses, as delightfully malicious as it is instructive, as well as tips for the perfect speech (you must take at least three weeks to write an impromptu speech), the perfect book for children (it must interest not only boys but any man who has ever been a boy) - even the perfect editor (its best to edit while awake).--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=188224 Elizabeth Benedict is here to help you craft compelling sex scenes that are just right for your fiction - whether your story calls for an encounter that sizzles or one that fizzles. Benedict has explored sensuality in her own novels with great success. So in The Joy of Writing Sex, she covers all the issues head-on - from how to handle creating fiction your grandparents might not approve of, to writing about sex in the age of AIDS. Youll learn to construct scenes that hinge not on the mechanics of sex, but on the freshness of characters, dialogue, mood, plot - all the ingredients of powerful fiction. Throughout, youll benefit from the voices and experiences of some of todays most prestigious writers - among them, John Updike, Dorothy Allison, Russell Banks, Joyce Carol Oates, Carol Shields and Alan Hollinghurst. For absolute clarity, Benedict uses examples from the finest contemporary fiction to illustrate her points. She takes care to examine each excerpt in context of the whole piece, to help you develop the skills you need to objectively analyze your own work. In the final chapter, youll find exercises to help you master elements such as dialogue, setting and tone.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=159197