 | Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.60 An honest and uplifting work about conscious writing and living.
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 | The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder by Stephen Elliott
Buy new: $15.64 / Used from: $14.81 Objective distance: a necessity to any memoir or first person narrative. Find it here, along with a great example of narrative stability organizing a treacherous sequence of details and events.
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 | Blue Water: A Novel by A. Manette Ansay
Buy new: $19.96 / Used from: $0.78 Landscape coming alive, paragraphs smelling and tasting like ocean salt, and careful movement make this novel a real lesson in structure and imagery.
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 | Brutal Imagination: Poems by Cornelius Eady
Buy new: $10.92 / Used from: $1.74 This book offers unfolds in new ways each time you read it. Its minimalism haunts and deceives. The poems breath on the back of your neck.
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 | A Handbook for Drowning: Stories by David Shields
Buy used from: $0.01 From one of my favorite authors - this book shows you how to draw out the beauty of the mundane, and how to resist self-consciousness in the voice of a narrator. Shields
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 | Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: $8.75 / Used from: $0.36 Beginning fiction writers: start here.
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 | The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $3.14 How to make real characters, characters you think about long after you've bookmarked and teethbrushed and shut off the desk-lamp. Ask Amy Hempel.
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 | July, July by Tim O'Brien
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $0.01 Weaving as storytelling. Sequence, timing, frame-over-frame narrative.
Also, just a really fun book to read.
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 | Versed (Wesleyan Poetry) by Rae Armantrout
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $13.99 A poet who combines pathos with a sharp wit and an interesting social eye. Also, a great poet for anyone curious or conflicted about the man-made dichotomies of the poetry world.
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