Torbjörn Lundmark’s quirky QWERTY: A Note on the Type
Penguin, 2002
Following the trend of focussing on dip-in-and-out-able resources for these oh-so-sticky summer months, I’m looking to Torbjörn Lundmark’s quirky QWERTY: A Note on the Type today.
Like Jill Krementz’s book of photographs, and Adair Lara’s sentences of evidence that you are indeed a [...]
Jill Krementz’s The Writer’s Desk
Random House, 1996
Perhaps because it’s summertime, and my attention span shortened by humidity and holidays, I’m drawn to the books on my writing shelves that are not proper resources, but still distinctly writer-ish: The Writer’s Desk is lovely, completely browseable, enduring and endearing.
Although I do think the [...]
Adair Lara’s You Know You’re a Writer When…
Chronicle Books, 2007
This is one of those delightful little books that shops keep near their counter: literary impulse buys.
My husband found it in Type Books, in their literary impulse buy department, and I’m lucky that he indulged me in it because it’s the sort [...]
Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
Shambhala, 2004
Re-visiting Le Guin’s Steering the Craft inspired me to re-read some of her essays in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination.
The collection, as [...]
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
Eighth Mountain Press, 1998
Unlike last month’s resource, The Writer’s Notebook from Tin House, a relatively new acquisition, Le Guin’s book has been on my shelves for several years. It comes from Eighth Mountain Press (in [...]