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How I write : the secret lives of authors / edited by Dan Crowe with Philip Oltermann.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Rizzoli, 2007.Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 0847829421
  • 9780847829422
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Contents:
A farewell to arms / Vendela Vida -- A squeaky office chair / Jonathan Franzen -- Post-it notes / Will Self -- The Baths of Diocletian / Alan Hollinghurst -- Stövchen / Benjamin Markovits -- Jarry's spiral / Tom Robbins -- A Maglite / Janine Di Giovanni -- A cork wall / Eric Chase Anderson -- Kiehl's / JT Le Roy -- A large desk / Alain de Botton -- Ganesha / Luis J. Rodriguez -- A picture from Prague / Gina Ochsner -- Chocolate / Douglas Coupland -- A blindfolded rhino / Melissa Bank -- Simon Wiesenthal and the Simpsons / David Baddiel -- Clippity / Lionel Shriver -- Through my window / Geoff Dyer -- Nicotine / Anthony Bourdain -- Unknown keys / Siri Hustvedt -- Notebooks thrown across rooms / A.L. Kennedy -- Portland Meadows Racetrack / Willy Vlautin -- Calace / Louisa Young -- People I don't know / Isabel Young -- Yerba Maté / James Flint -- Oblique strategies / Rick Moody -- Hot water / Jane Smiley -- Oxford Bar / Ian Rankin -- A cabinet of curiosities / A.S. Byatt -- Laurence Stern / Adam Thirlwell -- Speedball / Natasha Mostert -- The pens / Hanif Kureishi -- Names / Jonathan Lethem -- Driving / David Guterson -- Alphabets / Marie Darrieussecq -- A body plummeting / Nicole Krauss -- In the wee small hours / Neil LaBute -- The monkey's jaw / Iain Sinclair -- The rituals of tea / Tash Aw -- A cypress cone / William Fiennes -- The lights of my writing life / Tony D'Souza -- .005 / Claire Messud -- My grandmother the dancer / Jake Arnott -- Walking / Matt Thorne -- Krautrock / Michel Faber -- Portrait / Joyce Carol Oates -- An axe in my hand / Jay McInerney -- Money / Tibor Fischer -- Cocktails from water and ice / Nick Laird -- Nat Love / ZZ Packer -- "This childish task" / Javier Marías -- Akhenaten / Ahdaf Soueif -- Terry's fist / Ronan Bennett
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 808.02 H847 Available 33111005157553
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Have you ever wondered about the creative process of your favourite authors? Who loves money more than life? Which old lady wears fur jackets? Who needs to punch a boxing ball before work? 'How I Write' offers unpublished and unseen material illuminating the secret lives of authors.

A farewell to arms / Vendela Vida -- A squeaky office chair / Jonathan Franzen -- Post-it notes / Will Self -- The Baths of Diocletian / Alan Hollinghurst -- Stövchen / Benjamin Markovits -- Jarry's spiral / Tom Robbins -- A Maglite / Janine Di Giovanni -- A cork wall / Eric Chase Anderson -- Kiehl's / JT Le Roy -- A large desk / Alain de Botton -- Ganesha / Luis J. Rodriguez -- A picture from Prague / Gina Ochsner -- Chocolate / Douglas Coupland -- A blindfolded rhino / Melissa Bank -- Simon Wiesenthal and the Simpsons / David Baddiel -- Clippity / Lionel Shriver -- Through my window / Geoff Dyer -- Nicotine / Anthony Bourdain -- Unknown keys / Siri Hustvedt -- Notebooks thrown across rooms / A.L. Kennedy -- Portland Meadows Racetrack / Willy Vlautin -- Calace / Louisa Young -- People I don't know / Isabel Young -- Yerba Maté / James Flint -- Oblique strategies / Rick Moody -- Hot water / Jane Smiley -- Oxford Bar / Ian Rankin -- A cabinet of curiosities / A.S. Byatt -- Laurence Stern / Adam Thirlwell -- Speedball / Natasha Mostert -- The pens / Hanif Kureishi -- Names / Jonathan Lethem -- Driving / David Guterson -- Alphabets / Marie Darrieussecq -- A body plummeting / Nicole Krauss -- In the wee small hours / Neil LaBute -- The monkey's jaw / Iain Sinclair -- The rituals of tea / Tash Aw -- A cypress cone / William Fiennes -- The lights of my writing life / Tony D'Souza -- .005 / Claire Messud -- My grandmother the dancer / Jake Arnott -- Walking / Matt Thorne -- Krautrock / Michel Faber -- Portrait / Joyce Carol Oates -- An axe in my hand / Jay McInerney -- Money / Tibor Fischer -- Cocktails from water and ice / Nick Laird -- Nat Love / ZZ Packer -- "This childish task" / Javier Marías -- Akhenaten / Ahdaf Soueif -- Terry's fist / Ronan Bennett

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