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By Elizabeth George. 2020
As the author of twenty-four novels, Elizabeth George is one of the most successful—and prolific—novelists today. In Mastering the Process…
, George offers readers a master class in the art and science of crafting a novel. This is a subject she knows well, having taught creative writing both nationally and internationally for over thirty years. "I have never before read a book about writing that is so thorough, thoughtful, and most of all, helpful." —Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women For many writers, the biggest challenge is figuring out how to take that earliest glimmer of inspiration and shape it into a full-length novel. How do you even begin to transform a single idea into a complete book? In these pages, award-winning, number one New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George takes us behind the scenes through each step of her writing process, revealing exactly what it takes to craft a novel. Drawing from her personal photos, early notes, character analyses, and rough drafts, George shows us every stage of how she wrote her novel Careless in Red , from researching location to imagining plot to creating characters to the actual writing and revision processes themselves. George offers us an intimate look at the procedures she follows, while also providing invaluable advice for writers about what has worked for her—and what hasn't. Mastering the Process gives writers practical, prescriptive, and achievable tools for creating a novel, editing a novel, and problem solving when in the midst of a novel, from a master storyteller writing at the top of her gameBy Ira Rosen. 2021
This program includes a prologue read by the author. Two-time Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Ira Rosen reveals the intimate,…
untold stories of his decades at America's most iconic news show. It's a 60 Minutes story on 60 Minutes itself. When producer Ira Rosen walked into the 60 Minutes offices in June 1980, he knew he was about to enter television history. His career catapulted him to the heights of TV journalism, breaking some of the most important stories in TV news. But behind the scenes was a war room of clashing producers, anchors, and the most formidable 60 Minutes figure: legendary correspondent Mike Wallace. Based on decades of access and experience, Ira Rosen takes listeners behind closed doors to offer an incisive look at the show that invented TV investigative journalism. With surprising humor, charm, and an eye for colorful detail, Rosen delivers an authoritative account of the unforgettable personalities that battled for prestige, credit, and the desire to scoop everyone else in the game. As Mike Wallace's top producer, Rosen reveals the interview secrets that made Wallace's work legendary, and the flaring temper that made him infamous. Later, as senior producer of ABC News Primetime Live and 20/20 , Rosen exposes the competitive environment among famous colleagues like Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters, and the power plays between correspondents Chris Wallace, Anderson Cooper, and Chris Cuomo. A master class in how TV news is made, Rosen shows listeners how 60 Minutes puts together a story when sources are explosive, unreliable, and even dangerous. From unearthing shocking revelations from inside the Trump White House, to an outrageous proposition from Ghislaine Maxwell, to interviewing gangsters Joe Bonanno and John Gotti Jr., Ira Rosen was behind the scenes of 60 Minutes' most sensational stories. Highly entertaining, dishy, and unforgettable, Ticking Clock is a never-before-told account of the most successful news show in American history. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's PressBy Irène Frain. 2016
By Wayne Koestenbaum. 2020
Through a collection of intimate reflections (on art, punctuation, eyeglasses, color, dreams, celebrity, corpses, porn, and translation) and assignments that…
encourage pleasure, attentiveness, and acts of playful making, poet, artist, critic, novelist, and performer Wayne Koestenbaum enacts twenty-six ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world. A subway passenger's leather bracelet prompts musings on the German word for "stranger." Montaigne leads to the memory of a fourth-grade friend's stinky feet. Koestenbaum dreams about a handjob from John Ashbery, swims next to Nicole Kidman, reclaims Robert Rauschenberg's squeegee, and apotheosizes Marguerite Duras as a destroyer of sentences. He directly proposes assignments to listeners: "Buy a one-dollar cactus, and start anthropomorphizing it. Call it Sabrina." "Describe an ungenerous or unkind act you have committed." "Find in every orgasm an encyclopedic richness... Reimagine doing the laundry as having an orgasm, and reinterpret orgasm as not a tiny experience, temporally limited, occurring in a single human body, but as an experience that somehow touches on all of human history. "Figure It Out is both a guidebook for, and the embodiment of, the practices of pleasure, attentiveness, art, and play from "one of the most original and relentlessly obsessed cultural spies writing today" (John Waters)By Philinda Masters, the Broadside Collective. 2019
Includes Susan G. Cole interviewing Gloria Steinem and writing by Margaret Atwood, Susan Crean, June Callwood, and Marian Engel. Broadside:…
A Feminist Review was a groundbreaking Canadian feminist newspaper published between 1979 and 1989. While Broadside paid attention to everything from feminists making art to street activism, it also covered the mainstream, from pop culture to peacemaking. The Broadside team uncovered the work of female artists and developed challenging and risky new ideas, all while participating in the day-to-day organizing of a grassroots movement. Broadside helped reinvent journalism to make room for a feminist voice. This collection looks at the impact of the newspaper on the lives of women. Through a selection of key articles, the book explores the issues and events, the conflicts and controversies, and the debates and discoveries of feminist theory and activism that formed the context and content of a decade of change.By Patt Morrison. 2018
An examination of the history and impact of newspapers in America from colonial times through the twenty-first century. Topics include…
the basis for what is news, journalistic family dynasties, sections of the newspaper, popular culture, frequency, who is left out of the narrative, technology, and more. Bestseller. 2018By Francesca Lia Block. 2018
A novelist discusses the writer's life. She offers advice on matters of technique and craft as well as on the…
ways writers can channel their own experiences into their writing. She shares stories from her own life and explains the healing power of creativity. Some strong language. 2018By Lindsey Hilsum. 2018
Random House presents the audiobook edition of In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, written and read by…
Lindsey Hilsum. ** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ** 'It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis , pushed to the unendurable, and that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.' Marie Colvin, 2001 Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. With fierce compassion and honesty, she reported from the most dangerous places in the world, fractured by conflict and genocide, going in further and staying longer than anyone else. In Sri Lanka in 2001, Marie was hit by a grenade and lost the sight in her left eye - resulting in her trademark eye patch - and in 2012 she was killed in Syria. Like her hero, the legendary reporter Martha Gellhorn, she sought to bear witness to the horrifying truths of war, to write 'the first draft of history' and crucially to shine a light on the suffering of ordinary people. Written by fellow foreign correspondent Lindsey Hilsum, this is the story of the most daring war reporter of her age. Drawing on unpublished diaries and notebooks, and interviews with Marie's friends, family and colleagues, In Extremis is the story of our turbulent age, and the life of a woman who defied conventionBy The New York Times. 2021
From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over…
the past 125 years. Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the publication where authors have been made, and where readers first encountered the classics that have enriched their lives. Now the editors have curated the Book Review &’s dynamic 125-year history, which is essentially the story of modern American letters. Brimming with remarkable reportage, this book collects interesting reviews, never-before-heard anecdotes about famous writers, and spicy letter exchanges. Here are the first takes on novels we now consider masterpieces, including a long-forgotten pan of Anne of Green Gables and a rave of Mrs. Dalloway , along with reviews and essays by Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, Nora Ephron, and more. Listeners will discover how literary tastes have shifted through the years—and how the Book Review &’s coverage has shaped so much of what we read todayA sportswriter pulls together examples of the century's best newspaper sports columns. From older writers like Damon Runyon and Ring…
Lardner through current writers such as Sally Jenkins and Mike Lupica. Some strong language. 2019By Ronald H. Spector, Marilyn Young, Paul Miles, Lawrence Lichty, Milton J. Bates. 1998
Covers the increasing American involvement in South Vietnam. Begins with TIME magazine's article about the first deaths of American advisers…
in 1959 and concludes with Daniel Lang's "Casualties of War" piece originally published in the New Yorker in 1969. Includes reporting on the controversy at home. Violence and strong language. 1998By Various, Clayborne Carson. 2003
Presents firsthand accounts drawn from newspapers, magazines, and book excerpts of the revolutionary events that overthrew segregation in the United…
States. Covers the civil rights movement from the historic 1963 March on Washington to reflections of the South during the early 1970s. Violence. 2003By Ronald H. Spector, Marilyn Young, Paul Miles, Lawrence Lichty, Milton J. Bates. 1998
Traces events from the revelation of the My Lai massacre in 1969 to the fall of Saigon in 1975 through…
newspaper and magazine articles. Includes war correspondent Michael Herr's memoir Dispatches: 1967-1975. Violence and strong language. 1998By Bill Kovach, Clayborne Carson, David J. Garrow, Carol Polsgrove. 2003
Presents firsthand accounts drawn from newspapers, magazines, and book excerpts of the civil rights movement in the United States. Contributors…
include Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, George S. Schuyler, James Baldwin, John Steinbeck, George W. Collins, and more. Violence. 2003By Sally Quinn. 2017
Journalist and widow of legendary newspaper editor Ben Bradlee reflects on her life as a spiritual quest. Describes her early…
years in Georgia, moving around the world with her Army officer father's career, exploring different spiritual practices, personal relationships, and more. Some strong language. 2017By Michael Finkel. 2015
Journalist recounts his experience investigating the story of Christian Longo. Longo was convicted of and sentenced to death for the…
killing of his wife and three children, and he appropriated the author's identity while on the run from law enforcement in Mexico. Basis for 2015 movie of the same name. Some violence. 2005By Ginger Zee. 2017
Memoir of chief meteorologist for ABC News. Discusses growing up in Michigan, her interest and studies in meteorology, challenges faced…
in the science and broadcasting professions, personal and romantic relationships, and more. 2017By Harold Evans. 2017
A newspaper editor provides a guide to proper English usage in writing. Discusses writing formulas, shortcuts to clarity, making every…
word count, the art of revision, and the increasing importance of precision in a digital age. 2017By Kwame Alexander, Marjory Wentworth, Chris Colderley, Ekua Holmes. 2017
A collection of twenty poems by Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderly, and Marjory Wentworth, written in tribute to well-known poets from…
around the world. Pays homage to Langston Hughes, Sandra Cisneros, Maya Angelou, Rumi, and more. For grades 4-7. 2017By Rebecca Smith. 2016