Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities by Paul Anthony Jones
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Category: Writing
If you're logofascinated, you are literally spellbound by language. Word Drops is a language fact book unlike any other, its linguistic tidbits all falling together into one long interconnected chain just with each fact neatly 'dropping' into place beside the next.What's more, throughout, footnotes are ...Show more
Don't Believe A Word: The Surprising Truth About Language by David Shariatmadari
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Category: Writing
There's a term in Portuguese you simply can't translate. The origin of a word tells you how it should be used. Standards of grammar have taken a nosedive recently. The real meaning of 'disinterested' is 'unbiased'. Computers will soon be able to speak like human beings A dialect is inferior to a lang ...Show more
On Shirley Hazzard: Writers on Writers by Michelle de Kretser
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Category: Writing
'Hazzard was the first Australian writer I read who looked outwards, away from Australia. Her work spoke of places from which I had come and places to which I longed to go ... It was reading as an affair of revelations and gifts. It fell like rain, greening my vision of Australian literature as a stony ...Show more
Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri
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Category: Writing
A magnificent collection of 365 passages from Shakespeare's works, for the Shakespeare scholar and neophyte alike.Make Shakespeare a part of your daily routine with Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year, a yearlong collection of passages from Shakespeare's greatest works. Drawing from the full spectrum ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Writing
The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordinary career. Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, t ...Show more
The London Review of Books: An Incomplete History by London REVIEW
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Category: Writing
The most literary gift of the year: a beautiful hardback collection of archive gems from the London Review of Books, published to celebrate their 40th anniversary. Every two weeks for the past forty years, the London Review of Books has published between ten and twenty book reviews and essays intersper ...Show more
Letters to the Lady Upstairs by Marcel Proust; Lydia Davis (Translator)
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Category: Writing
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement.Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Proust, trying to write In ...Show more
The First Stone: 25th Anniversary Edition by Helen Garner
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Category: Writing | Series: GARNER. HELEN
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The First Stone has been reviled and revered. At the time of publication, its auth ...Show more
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? - The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By by Kurt Vonnegut; Dan Wakefield (Selected by)
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Category: Writing
Selected and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield, the speeches in If This Isn't Nice, What Is? capture a different side of Kurt Vonnegut for the first time in book form. There are nine speeches, seven given at colleges, one to the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, one on the occasion of ...Show more
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Writing
A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me; an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent. In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the ...Show more
Understanding Journalism by Lynette Sheridan Burns; Benjamin J. Matthews
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Category: Writing
This bestselling, approachable textbook begins from the assertion that the practice of journalism should be driven by a commitment to service the public interest. With this goal in sight, Understanding Journalism explains in a clear and engaging manner both the principles and techniques required to beco ...Show more