An innovative and accessible guide to writing and reading poetry by an acclaimed poet and beloved professor of poetry.What makes reading a poem unlike reading anything else? In Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens, acclaimed poet and teacher Paisley Rekdal...

From NPR comes the definitive guide to podcasting—featuring step-by-step advice on how to find a unique topic, tell the best stories, and engage the most listeners, as well as the secrets that will take your pod to the next level.Whoever you are,...

“Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro's long experience as a celebrated writer and teacher of writing. The beneficiaries are beginning writers, veteran writers and everyone in between...

This 187-page hardcover was published in 1980 by Harper & Row (2nd edition). This book appears new in every way except for minor shelving wear on edges of dustcover.

A concise, lively, and bracing exploration of an issue bedeviling our cultural landscape–plagiarism in literature, academia, music, art, and film–by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars. Best-selling novelists J. K. Rowling and...

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is one of the world's best-loved reference books. First published in 1870, this treasury of 'words that have a tale to tell has established itself as one of the great reference classics-the first port of call for...

This is an essential book for everyone who wants to write clearly about any subject and use writing as a means of learning.

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERMemoir meets craft master class in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of how we think and write about intimate experiences—“a must read for anybody shoving a pen across paper or staring into a...

Best-selling Heroine’s Journey author Maureen Murdock invites readers to explore their personal story within the rich tapestry of human experience by examining the craft of memoir alongside fresh writing advice and prompts.Maureen Murdock looks at...

What is the meaning of a word? Most readers turn to the dictionary for authoritative meanings and correct usage. But what is the source of authority in dictionaries? Some dictionaries employ panels of experts to fix meaning and prescribe usage, others...

This book is about editing documentary texts. It is not a book of instructions, and indeed Professor Harvey has only three unbending rules: be accurate; say what you are going to do and do it; and give full references to the document and describe it...

Problems in Lexicography is an essential, classic work of practical lexicography (the practice of writing dictionaries) and meta-lexicography. Originally published over sixty years ago, it was based on the proceedings of the Indiana University Conference...

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English, which Neil Gaiman called “a marvelous book”Many of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild...

A concise and practical manual on developing reading, writing, and critical thinking skills in tandemFor college students learning how to write on scholarly subjects, writing and critical thinking go hand in hand. And yet most books on these topics are...

A stunningly illustrated atlas of the world’s rivers, estuaries, and deltas, and their ecosystemsFrom the Congo and the Mekong to the Seine and the Mississippi, Earth’s rivers carve through landscapes before coursing into the world’s oceans through...

Fifty easy-to-deploy active learning exercises for teaching academic writing in any fieldThe Pocket Instructor: Writing offers fifty practical exercises for teaching students the core elements of successful academic writing. The exercises—created by...

"Maggie Balistreri takes dead aim at the 'Like, whatever' faction of English speakers . . . clear-minded grammar wins out in the end. Bravo."-Garrison KeillorThis scathingly funny dictionary of euphemisms translates the, like, banalities of contemporary...