Elements of FictionIn his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools to write a novel in one year. In this com plementary follow up, Mosley guides the writer through the elements of not just any fiction writing, but the kind of writing that transcends convention and truly stands out. How does one approach the genius of writers like Melville, Dickens, or Twain? In The Elements of Fiction Writing,

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Homeland brilliantly isolates and explores four key issues: the militarism that swept through American politics and culture

One of Britain’s greatest nature writers blends horticulture with philosophy in this intimate memoir about gardening

She examines the work and lives of several authors she admires―including Grace Paley

fostering situated

sardonic wit

Wroten’s imagery in Eden II reflects the blighted pastiche of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker—and they have suffused that pastiche with a dark sense of humor and technologically enhanced moral ambiguity

to ensure that the way we live next is both less lonely and more affordable

IF WE BURN is a stirring work of history built around a single

a doula/healer

along with over 45 key moments in environmental awareness history

"A masterpiece ahead of its time