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Startle and illuminate: Carol Shields on writing
By Carol Shields, Anne Giardini, Nicholas Giardini. 2016
In the course of her career, which included novels as well as poetry, short stories, biography and plays, Carol Shields…
was encouraging of other writers: she read and commented on her friends' manuscripts, taught writing classes, and spoke and wrote on the craft of writing. This is her guide to the writing process, from conception to publication. Drawn by her daughter and grandson from her correspondence with other writers, essays, notes, comments, criticism and lectures, it helps answer some of the most fundamental questions about writing: why we write at all, whether writing can be taught, what keeps a reader turning the pages, and how a writer knows when a work is done. 2016.Sinc, Betty, and the morning man: the story of CFRB
By Donald Lamont Jack. 1977
Simply speaking: how to communicate your ideas with style, substance, and clarity
By Peggy Noonan. 1998
A former speech writer for U.S. presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush offers "advice and anecdotes about the writing and…
giving of speeches." Exhorts both veteran and novice speakers to organize their message using logic, sincerity, humour, and short sentences, while keeping the speech under twenty minutes. c1998.Signing on: the birth of radio in Canada
By Bill McNeil, Morris Wolfe. 1982
Section lines: a Manitoba anthology
By Mark Duncan. 1988
Saturday Night lives: selected diaries
By John Fraser. 1994
From 1987 to 1994, John Fraser was editor of "Saturday Night" magazine. "Saturday Night Lives!" is a selection of his…
monthly diaries, in which he wrote whatever was on his mind. The diaries offer commentaries on Canada's political and cultural life, satires on the depopulation of Atlantic Canada, take-offs of Revenue Canada's income tax guides, and much more. The first and final diaries are narrated by John Fraser himself. c1994.Reflections: 1923-1988
By Graham Greene, Judith Adamson. 1990
"Reflections" is a selection of previously uncollected travel reports, essays and reviews. Spanning nearly seven decades, the pieces encompass an…
extraordinary range of subjects. While articles from the twenties and thirties cover trips to many parts of Europe, Greene also found material closer to home. Critical reviews evoke the atmosphere of wartime England; later articles examine events in Indo-China, Cuba, Haiti, Paraguay and Chile. 1990.Regret the error: how media mistakes pollute the press and imperil free speech
By Craig Silverman. 2007
We regret the error - it's a phrase that appears in newspapers almost daily, the standard notice that something went…
wrong in the reporting, editing, or printing of an article. This collection of funny, shocking, and sometimes disturbing journalistic slip-ups and corrections includes all types of media inaccuracy - from 'fuzzy math' to 'obiticide' (printing the obituary of a person very much alive) to complete and utter ethical lapses. Explicit strong language, and some descriptions of sex. c2007.Ray Bradbury: master of science fiction and fantasy (Authors teens love)
By Wendy Mass. 2004
As a boy, Ray Bradbury had a wild and vivid imagination, which came in handy later when he became a…
science fiction and fantasy writer. Bradbury has written more than 500 literary works (beginning in 1938) including "The Martian chronicles" and "Fahrenheit 451", which incorporate his love of outer space, magic, and mystery. Includes a time line, a list of selected works, a glossary, and a short interview with the writer. Grades 5-8. 2004.Professeurs de désespoir
By Nancy Huston. 2004
Dans cette étude, l'écrivaine parle d'auteurs qu'elle considère "négativistes". Ils se divisent en trois générations. Adultes pendant la Seconde Guerre…
mondiale: Samuel Beckett, Emil Cioran - Enfants/adolescents pendant la guerre: Imre Kertész, Thomas Bernhard, Milan Kundera - Nées après la guerre: Elfriede Jelinek, Michel Houellebecq, Sarah Kane, Christine Angot, Linda Lê. 2004.Pour faire une longue histoire courte: entretien
By Roger Lemelin, Victor Lévy Beaulieu. 1991
Le but de ce livre est de parler de soi. Sa règle du jeu est le JE. Le meneur de…
ce jeu-je vivifiant est l'écrivain Victor-Levy Beaulieu, qui a atteint dans cet échange le sommet de l'art de son ancien métier de journaliste. 1991.Poems and sketches of E.B. White
By E. B White. 1981
Collection of poems, essays, satires, and other occasional short pieces which display the author's characteristic wit, craft, and whim, most…
originally published in such magazines as the "New Yorker", "Harper's", and the "Atlantic". Several of the works have never been published before. 1981.Écrire en toute liberté (Écrire)
By François Barcelo. 2001
Ancien rédacteur publicitaire, métier qu'il a exercé pendant vingt ans, et écrivain prolifique (plus de vingt-cinq livres de fiction), Barcelo…
a toute l'experience nécessaire, et tout l'humour, pour inaugurer la collection Écrire et nous révéler ses petits secrets professionnels, pourquoi il écrit, comment il est devenu écrivain (et quand il cessera de l'être), etc. Riche en anecdotes, de ton bon-enfant, ce petit essai plein de bon sens et de liberté, répond à huit question : Pourquoi? Qui? (m'a donné envie d'écrire). Comment? Où? Combien (ça me rapporte.) Pour qui? Quoi? Quand? Que demander de plus? 2001.Petits agacements en tout genre
By Constance Chaillet. 1998
En 13 points Garamond (Écrire)
By Jacques Hébert. 2002
Récit vivant, cocasse, passionnant et discutable, anecdotique et parfois polémique ou, plus rarement, flagorneur, dans lequel l'auteur relate quelques-uns de…
ses souvenirs d'auteur d'un roman et de nombreux récits de voyage, et d'éditeur. Chacun des treize chapitres contient le portrait d'un personnage hors du commun fréquenté par Hébert, de Victor-Lévy Beaulieu à Jacques Ferron en passant par Duplessis, J.-P. Desbiens, P.-E. Trudeau et M.-C. Blais. Ce personnage donne son titre au chapitre en question. 2002.Oscariana: the wit & maxims of Oscar Wilde
By Oscar Wilde, Stephen Calloway, David Colvin. 1997
A collection which showcases Wilde's fabulous verbal dexterity. Based on two books published during his lifetime, The Maxims of Oscar…
Wilde and Oscariana, and organized by subject. Includes many epigrams and sayings which ridiculed the conventional wisdom of Wilde's day and skewered its hypocrisies. 1997.Negotiating with the dead: a writer on writing (The empson Lectures)
By Margaret Atwood. 2002
Margaret Atwood looks back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career and examines the metaphors which…
writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain their activities. Her wide and eclectic reference to other writers, living and dead, is balanced by anecdotes from her own experiences as a writer, both in Canada and on the international scene. 2002.Montréal en prose: 1892-1992 : anthologie (Collection Anthologies)
By Nathalie Fredette. 1992
Montréal en prose réunit près de cinquante textes peu connus écrits par des écrivains majeurs francophones et anglophones. Classé selon…
des rubriques thématiques qui restent également fidèles à un certain parcours chronologique, l'ensemble des textes entend rendre compte du développement et de la complexification des rapports entre Montréal et les écrivains, tout en permettant de découvrir un visage inédit, chaque fois singulier, de Montréal. 1992.Mothers & daughters: an anthology
By Alberto Manguel. 1998
Écrivains contemporains du Québec: anthologie
By Lise Gauvin, Gaston Miron. 1998
Cette anthologie couvre trois décennies de littérature québécoise. Les auteurs visent à la diversité, à une répartition équilibrée entre les…
générations et les genres, les divers milieux, tendances et écritures. Pour chaque auteur, une notice bio-bibliographique d'un peu plus d'une page. 1998.