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Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
by Hwang Bo-Reum
From the author of the international bestseller Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, a heartfelt invitation to reflect on your relationship with reading and celebrate the joys of books.
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A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction
by Elizabeth McCracken
From bestselling and award-winning author and professor Elizabeth McCracken comes an irresistible look at the art of writing.Writing can feel like an endless series of decisions. How does one face the blank page? Move a character around a room? Deal with time? Undertake revision? The good and bad news is that in fiction writing, there are no definitive answers to such questions: writers must come up with their own. Elizabeth McCracken, author of bestselling novels, National Book Award long-listed story collections, and a highly praised memoir, has been teaching for more than thirty-five years, guiding her many students through their own answers. In A Long Game, she shares insights gleaned along the way, offering practical tips and incisive thoughts about her own work as an artist. The book covers: Understanding and developing charactersPlot, and what to do if it eludes youHer thoughts on common writing rulesAnd of course, the Butter Cow Lady of the Iowa State Fair and her work as it relates to revisionWriting is a long game, she notes. What matters is that you learn to get work done in the way that is possible for you, through consistency or panic. Through self-recrimination or self-delusion or self-forgiveness: every life needs all three. As much a book about the life of a working artist as it is a guide to thinking about fiction, A Long Game is a revelatory and indispensable resource for any writer.
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Make Magic: The Book of Inspiration You Didn't Know You Needed
by Brad Meltzer
If you really want to shock the world, unleash your kindness. Based on bestselling author Brad Meltzer's viral commencement speech for his son's graduating class at the University of Michigan, Make Magic is the little book of hope for anyone who has ever wished for more. More authenticity. More empathy. More gratitude. A more fulfilling life. With charming, thoughtful insights from his remarkable life and career, Meltzer uses magic as allegory, sharing the secret that there are only four types of magic tricks: 1) you make something appear, 2) you make something disappear, 3) you make two things switch places, and4) you turn one thing into something else--the hardest trick of all, transformation. Embracing each of these easy-to-follow tricks--and unleashing your kindness and empathy--will inspire you to craft a life filled with wonder and awe.Make Magic is an uplifting message from one of today's most inspiring voices.
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