101 Books Every Writer Should Read Before I Die (in progress)
Submitted by thinandlight on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 09:20
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- Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
- Writing Down the Bones - Natalie Goldberg
- Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose
- The Artist's Way - Julia Cameron
- Story -
- A Writer's Way -
- Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria von Rilke
- On Writing - Stephen King
- Elements of Style - Strunk & White
- Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature - ed. Warren Motte, Jr.
- Dialogic Imagination - Mikhail Bakhtin
- Rhetoric of Fiction - Wayne Booth
- Zen in the Art of Writing - Ray Bradbury
- Telling Lies for Fun and Profit - Lawrence Block
- The Novel and the Police - D.A. Miller
I don't understand the title... books every writer should read before you die? Care to explain?
Just having some fun with the conventions, misscurly.
Not to worry!
Are you a writer yourself?
It's a funny idea/title.. how do you propose to accomplish the goal? Petitioning? Reading lists randomly mailed to authors? Book clubs?
:D