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Write Through It: An Insider’s Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life

Ayam Buah Keluak and the Art of Writing: a memoir on living creatively

Radicals, Volume 2: Memoir, Essays, and Oratory: Audacious Writings by American Women, 1830-1930

The Ghostwriter

Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey

Inconvenient Women: Australian radical writers 1900–1970

Always Home, Always Homesick

Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman

Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York

Syme’s Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence

It’s Never Too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond

The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition

The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life

Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28

Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life

Funny Because It’s True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying: Lessons From a Life in Comedy

Trauma Plot: A Life

How to Write a Funny Speech . . .: for a Wedding, Bar Mitzvah, Graduation & Every Other Event You Didn’t Want to Go to in the First Place

Artful

We Need Your Art: Stop Messing Around and Make Something

We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine

Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings

Why Memoir Matters: Learning from the Lives of Others

My Accidental Career

Bibliophobia: A Memoir

Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760

To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface

Virginia Woolf’s Influential Forebears: Julia Margaret Cameron, Anny Thackeray Ritchie and Julia Prinsep Stephen

Singular Women: Writing the Artist

Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

Didion and Babitz

Nora Ephron at the Movies

Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing

Somebody with a Little Hammer

It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer’s Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences

The Heroine’s Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture

An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography

A Writer’s Diary

Speak / Stop

The Healing Power of Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Navigate Illness, Trauma, and Loss

Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing

The Word Pretty

Everybody Needs an Editor: The Essential Guide to Clear and Effective Writing

A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write (The Art of the Essay)

Hungry Authors: The Indispensable Guide to Planning, Creating, and Publishing a Nonfiction Book

Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy

Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers

The Science of Strong Women: The True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fictional Feminists

Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers

Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published

How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory

Women’s Agency in the Dune Universe: Tracing Women’s Liberation through Science Fiction

The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings: Tales of a Newspaper Woman

Symbolism, Dada, Surrealisms: Selected Writing of Mary Ann Caws

Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice

A Tale of Two Titties: A Writer’s Guide to Conquering the Most Sexist Tropes in Literary History

Winifred Sanford: The Life and Times of a Texas Writer

Morning Pages

The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones

The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West

The Golden Girls

Living the Artist’s Way: An Intuitive Path to Greater Creativity

1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All-Year Round

The Scent of Flowers at Night

On Connection

Narrative Healing: Awaken the Power of Your Story

A Poetry Handbook

Catching the Light

The Only Woman in the Room

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories That Inform, Influence, and Inspire

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

New Stories We Tell: True Tales By America’s New Generation of Great Women Journalists

Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up

The Stories We Tell: Classic True Tales by America’s Greatest Women Journalists

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words

Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir

Fifty Sounds

The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation

The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution

Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World

Myself When Young

Translating Myself and Others

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life

Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel: The Ultimate Guide to Writing a YA Bestseller

A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

How to Write Erotica

The Way of the Fearless Writer: Mindful Wisdom for a Flourishing Writing Life

How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill

Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995

Story Line: Finding Gold in Your Life Story

Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

The Dictionary of Clichés: A Word Lover’s Guide to 4,000 Overused Phrases and Almost-Pleasing Platitudes

Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century: Looking Like a Woman

The Art of Starting: How to Build Your Creative Business from the Ground Up

Write Yourself Out of a Corner: 100 Exercises to Unlock Creativity

Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time

Where the Stress Falls

The Hundreds

May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate: Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century

Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power

The Hidden Writer

Manga Cultures and the Female Gaze

Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation

Roads of Her Own: Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women’s Road Narratives, 1970-2000

A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

A Horse at Night: On Writing

Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?

The Letters of Shirley Jackson

Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance

That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means: The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories

The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

The Mirror Book

How to Read Now

How to Suppress Women’s Writing

Letters to a Writer of Color

Black Women Writers at Work

Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers

Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer

Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood

The Artist’s Way

Nora Ephron: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected essays of Charmian Clift

I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Write for Your Life

Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles

Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief

What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book

Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds: A Writer’s Guide

Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës

Nora Ephron: A Biography

My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems

How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth

Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L’Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time

How to Write a Memoir in 30 Days: Step-by-Step Instructions for Creating and Publishing Your Personal Story

Forgotten Women: The Writers

Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist

The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces

Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread

On Imagination

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

American Originality: Essays on Poetry

Drinking with Dead Women Writers

The Art of Storytelling: Telling Truths Through Telling Stories

The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People

Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers

More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations

Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

Writing Matters: A Handbook for Writing and Research

The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography

The Writer’s Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives

Grammar 101: From Split Infinitives to Dangling Participles, an Essential Guide to Understanding Grammar

Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction

Book of Awesome Women Writers

The Power of Point of View: Make Your Story Come to Life

Impersonation

Generation F: The Girls Write Now 2018 Anthology

My Life as a Villainess

The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way

She Found It at the Movies: Women Writers on Sex, Desire and Cinema

A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement

Rise Speak Change: The 2017 Girls Write Now Anthology

Sceneclopedia: Horror: Every Scene of 25 Horror Films

Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing

Too Much and Not the Mood

The Woman in the Story: Writing Memorable Female Characters

Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy

The Faraway Nearby

Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings

Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World

Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany

Country Girl: A Memoir

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

Violation: Collected Essays by Sallie Tisdale

300 Arguments

Actually, the Comma Goes Here: A Practical Guide to Punctuation

Drifts

If It’s Purple, Someone’s Gonna Die: The Power of Color in Visual Storytelling

Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir