Raymond Carver's mentor explains how to get the skills you need in your apprenticeship process

You can never have too many of John Gardners advises, explanations and complains. He -as Seinfeld's soup nazi- suffers for his art and let it show. The art of fiction collect for the first time his teaching papers -the "block book"- and contain theory and excersises for the beggining writer.

So you're not a photographer or a painter, so how can a book written by such an author helps you with your craft? By showing the common spirit in all arts, Audrey Flack gives the opportunity to connect with the most spiritual side of the artistic process. A beautiful collection of thoughts and small essays that attracts inspiration

It only takes the reading of any of Auster's novel to acknowledge he's a voice to be heard when it comes to talk about writing

McCormack will take you to the other side of the gameboard, as he shows his experience as editor and he could help some of the writers he worked with

David Lodge is witty, funny and knows wath he's talking about. Besides he always get to his point.

Ricardo Piglia is a vital novelist and one of the key spanish language writers. In theses essays, notes and interviews, Piglia tries to get a behind the scenes look at the art of writing

Mario Vargas Llosa is only a Nobel prize behind of literature giants as Faulkner or Hemingway. In this book he studies more than twenty essential novels for the writers who wants to learn directly from the masters

Nobody understood fiction writer as Henry James. He's just so perfect. See the master lab in his notebooks

E.M. Forster acts like your personal mentor in the path of becoming a novelist by explaining one by one the main elements of fiction

Juan José Saer's take on the ingredients that allow fiction stories to succeed.