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Keep Going by Austin Kleon

Steal like an artist by Austin Kleon

When asked to talk to students at Broome Community College in upstate New York in the spring of 2011, Austin …

Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state …

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national …

Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin

Presents advice on the basic elements of narrative prose, covering point of view, sentence length and complex syntax, indirect narration, …

The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

A meditative reflection in anecdote and vignette on Annie Dillard's writing process. Beautiful and vivid prose.

Annie Dillard has written …

Story by Robert McKee

For the first time in book form, Robert McKee's Story reveals the award-winning methods of the man universally regarded as …

Bird by bird by Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott gives her perspective on the art and work of writing. The title comes from a family story when …

Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg, Nathalie Goldberg

For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In …

On Writing by Stephen King

On Writing is both a textbook for writers and a memoir of Stephen's life and will, thus, appeal even to …

The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll

For years Ryder Carroll tried countless organizing systems, Online and off, but none of them fit the way his mind …

Deep Work by Cal Newport

One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve …