| Description |
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Farewell to arms / Vendela Vida -- Squeaky office chair / Jonathan Franzen -- Post-it notes / Will Self -- Baths of Diocletian / Alan Hollinghurst -- Stövchen / Benjamin Markovits -- Jarry's spiral / Tom Robbins -- Maglite / Janine Di Giovanni -- Cork wall / Eric Chase Anderson -- Kiehl's / JT Le Roy -- Large desk / Alain de Botton -- Ganesha / Luis J. Rodriguez -- Picture from Prague / Gina Ochsner -- Chocolate / Douglas Coupland -- Blindfolded rhino / Melissa Bank -- Simon Wiesenthal and the Simpsons / David Baddiel -- Clippity / Lionel Shriver -- Through my window / Geoff Dyer -- Nicotine / Anthony Bourdain -- Unknown keys / Siri Hustvedt -- Notebooks thrown across rooms / A.L. Kennedy -- Portland Meadows Racetrack / Willy Vlautin -- Calace / Louisa Young -- People I don't know / Isabel Young -- Yerba Maté / James Flint -- Oblique strategies / Rick Moody -- Hot water / Jane Smiley -- Oxford Bar / Ian Rankin -- Cabinet of curiosities / A.S. Byatt -- Laurence Stern / Adam Thirlwell -- Speedball / Natasha Mostert -- Pens / Hanif Kureishi -- Names / Jonathan Lethem -- Driving / David Guterson -- Alphabets / Marie Darrieussecq -- Body plummeting / Nicole Krauss -- In the wee small hours / Neil LaBute -- Monkey's jaw / Iain Sinclair -- Rituals of tea / Tash Aw -- Cypress cone / William Fiennes -- Lights of my writing life / Tony D'Souza -- .005 / Claire Messud -- My grandmother the dancer / Jake Arnott -- Walking / Matt Thorne -- Krautrock / Michel Faber -- Portrait / Joyce Carol Oates -- Axe in my hand / Jay McInerney -- Money / Tibor Fischer -- Cocktails from water and ice / Nick Laird -- Nat Love / ZZ Packer -- "This childish task" / Javier Marías -- Akhenaten / Ahdaf Soueif -- Terry's fist / Ronan Bennett -- Dogs / Arthur Bradford -- Tempus omnia revelat / Bruce Robinson -- Earplugs / Nicholson Baker -- Importance of my navel / Tim Carvell -- Purple pen, a portable home / Elif Shafak -- Head of a saint / Audrey Niffenegger -- Red and blue notebook / Peter Hobbs -- Seahorses / Jill Dawson -- Quark / Chip Kidd -- "Office" / Caren Beilin -- Typewriter / John Byrne -- Barricade / Nat Segnit -- Rock bottom / Dan Rhodes -- Hotel rooms / A.M. Homes -- Tobacco / DBC Pierre. |
| Summary |
Where do writers get their ideas? How do they deal with writer's block? What gets them high? What gets them low? What do they do all day? With original contributions from some of the most established authors in the world, How I Write is an editorial powerhouse of more than sixty essays. |
| Subject |
Authorship -- Anecdotes.
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Creative writing.
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Authors.
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| Added Author |
Crowe, Dan, 1972-
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Oltermann, Philip, 1981-
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| ISBN |
0847829421 |
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9780847829422 |
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