Author: Ellen Sussman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: misbehave, writers, girls
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-07-17
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0393331954
ISBN-13: 9780393331950
“Makes for seriously sexy (and smart) summer reading.”—Elle “I behave badly to set myself apart. To test myself. To push myself. To prove something. To shock someone. ... I behave badly because I can.” That’s how Ellen Sussman describes her mischievous endeavors. In this anthology of personal essays, she’s invited twenty-five other bad girl writers to share their stories. Ann Hood lies; Mary Roach confesses. Erica Jong, the original bad girl, challenges her own cla
Author: Kelly Gallagher
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Keywords: writers, adolescent, teaching
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 1571104224
ISBN-13: 9781571104229
In an increasingly demanding world of literacy, it has become critical that students know how to write effectively. From the requirements of standardized tests to those of the wired workplace, the ability to write well, once a luxury, has become a necessity. Many students are leaving school without the necessary writing practice and skills needed to compete in a complex and fast-moving Information Age. Unless we teach them how to run with it, they are in danger of being run over by a stampede—a literacy stampede.In Teaching Adolescent Writers, Kelly Gallagher, author of Reading Reasons and D
Author: Philip F. Deaver
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: baseball, writers, second, scoring
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0803259913
ISBN-13: 9780803259911
Why do accomplished writers (and grown-ups) like Ron Carlson, Rick Bass, and Michael Chabon (to name but a few of those represented here) still obsess over their baseball days? What is it about this green game of suspense that not only moves us but can also move us to flights of lyrical writing? In Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball some of the literary lights of our day answer these questions with essays, reminiscences, and meditations on the sport that is America’s game but also a deeply personal experience for player, observer, and fan alike. Here writers as different as Andre Dubu
Author: A. Kingsley Weatherhead
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Keywords: residences, writers, upstairs
Number of Pages: 187
Published: 2000-11
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0838638643
ISBN-13: 9780838638644
Examines the role played by the large house in works by Woolfe, Waugh, Murdoch and others
Author: Ralph Fletcher
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Keywords: voices, reclaiming, writers
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2006-11-06
List price: $18.50
ISBN-10: 1571104259
ISBN-13: 9781571104250
Writing test scores indicate that boys have fallen far behind girls across the grades. In general, boys don’t enjoy writing as much as girls. What’s wrong? How can we do a better of job of creating “boy-friendly” classrooms so their voices can be heard?In Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices Ralph Fletcher draws upon his years of experience as staff developer, children’s book author, and father of four boys. He also taps the insights from dozens of writing teachers around the US and abroad. Boy Writers asks teachers to imagine the writing classroom from a boy’s per
Author: Ottar G. Draugsvold
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: writing, writers, nobel
Number of Pages: 227
Published: 2000-07
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0786406291
ISBN-13: 9780786406296
When in 1901 Alfred Nobel bequeathed to the world the funds to support the Nobel Prize, one of his few directives for the category of literature was that the artists selected be of "idealistic tendency." Since its inception, the prize has given a very public voice to some of the world’s greatest writers, and their responses to the honor-their acceptance speeches-have themselves often been epochal within each author’s body of literature. From the famed call to "arms" by William Faulkner to the multicultural song of Derek Walcott, from 1903’s Bjrnstjerne Bjrnson to 1999’s
Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Heinemann
Keywords: writers, african, people, man
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1988-12-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0435905341
ISBN-13: 9780435905347
This novel was included in Anthony Burgess’s personal selection of the 99 best novels in English since 1939.
