《成为作家》是一本具有阅读趣味与实用功能的、有关“写作的艺术”的轻松读物。本书涵盖从18世纪至今250年间近200位伟大作家对“如何成为作家”进而“如何生活”的思考和意见，其中包括狄更斯、福克纳、托尔斯泰、海明威、菲茨杰拉德、门罗等众多写作大师，可以视为一部剑走偏锋的现代文学史。
作者通过整理这些作家的日记、书信、公开演讲、著作等文本，提炼出他们或严肃或幽默的写作体验与意见。从狄更斯到门罗，从王尔德到J.K.罗琳，每位处于不同时代的作者将在本书中形成时空交错的对话，本书包括“开始写作”“方法与途径”“不可避免的失败”“写作的艺术”“如何结尾”五个部分，同时有20多福极具个性而简练的插画，与文字呼应。
希拉里·曼特尔说：“一点儿骄傲会给你很大帮助。”
列夫·托尔斯泰建议：“选择对你而言的最佳写作时间。”
洛夫克拉夫特索性直接点明深夜是最佳写作时间：“一个人在没有试过开夜车写作之前，没法知道自己是不是个作家。”
威廉·福克纳提倡广泛阅读：“读，读，读，读垃圾，读经典……先吸收，再动笔。”
凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德说：“写点什么，总比什么也不写强。”
海明威说：“在写得顺的时候停笔，别再想它，第二天继续。”
约翰·斯坦贝克说：“别去管什么时候写完，每天写一页就对了。”
米兰达·裘丽说：“别担心写坏的初稿，初稿是最难的部分，有了初稿后面就相对容易了。”
菲茨杰拉德分享了切肤之痛：“不要一边喝酒一边写作。”
扎迪·史密斯说：“请在一台不联网的电脑上写作。”
穆里尔·斯帕克说：“养一只猫，如果你想集中精力思考一些问题或写重要作品，你应该养一只猫。”
--------------《上海书评》

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.
In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

《读书与跌宕自喜》是马雁生前为自己第一本随笔集拟定的名字。她为自己写的书稿介绍是：以古代诗歌、世界文学为主的读书生活随笔，其中重点关注语体和语用学意义上的创造性写作技巧、阅读审美经验传达及中国传统文化的传承等三方面主题。用三十篇左右的五千字以内的随笔文章，互相支撑、构造出一种丰富的、具有个人审美倾向和知识特征的阅读生活场景，通过作者独特的知识背景和理论结构，与读者分享一种新的阅读视野和可能性。
新版恢复书名的同时，也恢复了马雁全部自选篇目及编排顺序，或可让新一代读者辨识出马雁在遭遇意外之前的生命本真。是为本书的第一辑。旧版中的其余文章，作为第二辑，归入“集外”，按写作时间顺序编排。第三辑仍为旧版中的日记选。
“十年的时间，虽然很短，但似乎也足够让死者和生者都卸下悲泣哀婉的面容，令一个真生命自灰烬中重生，只要她的诗句与文辞仍跌宕自喜在无数不相识的读者的心里。”

Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, Proofs and Theories is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Glück, whose most recent book of poems, The Wild Iris, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Glück brings to her prose the same precision of language, the same incisiveness and insight that distinguish her poetry. The force of her thought is evident everywhere in these essays, from her explorations of other poets' work to her skeptical contemplation of current literary critical notions such as "sincerety" and "courage." Here also are Glück's revealing reflections on her own education and life as a poet, and a tribute to her teacher and mentor, Stanley Kunitz. Proofs and Theories is the testament of a major poet.

此书曾于2004年出版，引起小说界和学界的瞩目，更是受到广大小说爱好者的追捧。此次为修订版，作者亲自写了一篇精彩纷呈的长序《志怪应逢天雨粟》。
喜欢读小说、写小说的人应该能体贴胡适把明、清之际的许多小说家“拉拔”到和古文家等高甚至更高一等的地位上去。虽然胡适的《白话文学史》只写到中唐的元、白诗便戛然而止，压根儿没从小说上说明白：中国文学是如何“永永脱离了盲目的自然演化的老路，走上了有意创作的新路”的。然而，在《白话文学史》书成近70年后，胡适的意见乃至于诸多考证研究与观念的发明，不该只被看成是“奖掖小说”、“揄扬当代”而已。他所触及的课题倘若不被进一步发现、开展，喜欢读小说、写小说的人恐怕也“永永”不会明白：从施耐庵到吴跌人是如何……
在《小说稗类》中，由庄子始，张大春炫技似地学舌马奎兹、戏仿司马中原……极尽耍痞嘲弄之能事。难得他如此杂学百家、博古通今，更难得有如此清晰的架构，梳理出独特的小说观。

《白色绵羊里的黑色绵羊》是双雪涛的首部杂文集。全书分为三个部分：第一部分“白色绵羊里的黑色绵羊：谈小说”，收录了作者面向写作爱好者的九篇专文：从小说的开头、氛围，到人物的塑造、意象与语言、结尾与修改……分享了自己的阅读与写作实操经验；第二部分“岔出去的一段生活：谈电影”，以影视改编的成功个案切入，详细讲述了自己对于电影和文学两种艺术媒介的理解、小说文本和影视改编的关系；第三部分“与火焰的距离：杂文集”，精选了作者自2012年辞职开始自由写作后，十年来发表的与创作有关的杂文、随笔、访谈。
这本书是小说家双雪涛与读者之间一场诚挚的交谈，他分享了自己如何走上写作这条路，其间的错误与弯路，失去与获得；他以十年来的写作实践与经验反思，向每一个心怀创作梦想的人，发出邀请和召唤——
一个没有经过传统科班训练、但心怀文学梦想的年轻人，可以靠着手中的笔，劈开生活的荆斩，一步步靠近自己心中的文学理想。在混沌不明的现实面前，我们至少可以透过阅读和写作，守住自己内心深处微弱的光焰。

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content. Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present day and submits them to brilliantly illuminating closes analysis. Discusses the work of major poets, including John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, W.H.Auden, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and many more. Includes a helpful glossary of poetic terms.

契诃夫有许多手记本，里面是他在生活中随手记下的瞬间感触，将来作品的腹稿、速写，读书心得，以及从别的作家的书中抄录的拔萃。手记既是他的文学创作备忘录，也是他成熟期作品的索引。在他去世十年后，他的妻子克尼碧尔经过严格的选择和整理，形成这部《契诃夫手记》公诸于世。七年后，伍尔夫的丈夫伦纳德与人一起将《手记》译成英文出版。中译本最初于1953 年发行，随着译者贾植芳的偃蹇命运在图书馆尘封近三十年，直至1982 年重新印行，用他的话说，这个译本的命运也是他的生活的命运。

【内容简介】
波兰诗人辛波斯卡以对人性的深刻洞察力著称，同时她也是睿智深隽的散文家、风趣幽默的评论家，以及友善温和的阅读导师。她做了几十年的专栏作家，以谦逊的标题“非必要阅读”来评论各种各样的书籍，结集成这本真诚的阅读札记。这里收集的散文绝不平凡，与她最好的诗歌不相上下。在九十六篇短文中，辛波斯卡谈及时装、烹饪、家居、歌剧、文学、历史、音乐等，以小见大，充满了生活趣味和真知灼见。它教会我们如何热爱生活，如何善待阅读，如何将阅读与生活紧密联结。
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🔺诺贝尔文学奖得主辛波斯卡专栏文章初次结集
辛波斯卡做了几十年的专栏作家，以谦逊的标题“非必要阅读”来评论各种各样的书籍，结集成这本真诚的阅读札记。
她是睿智深隽的散文家、风趣幽默的评论家，以及友善温和的阅读导师。
🔺辛波斯卡私藏书单+阅读指南：从阅读中捡拾智慧，以阅读回答生活
辛波斯卡曾说过：“我是个落伍者，觉得阅读是人类迄今发明的最光荣的消遣。”
在九十六篇短文中，辛波斯卡谈及时装、烹饪、家居、歌剧、文学、历史、音乐等，以小见大，充满了生活趣味和真知灼见。
她教会我们如何热爱生活，如何善待阅读，如何将阅读与生活紧密联结。
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我只是一个读者并且希望做一个读者，一个业余爱好者，一个拥戴者，不受无休止的评估的重压。——辛波斯卡

2006年诺贝尔文学奖得主 奥尔罕•帕慕克 最新作品！
截至本书，帕慕克的重要作品已全部出齐。
一个小说家对读者的揭秘与渴望。
成就奥尔罕•帕慕克的文学省思。
更是中国读者熟悉的老帕，充满纯真的乐观召唤大家——“让我们来读小说吧！”
对于现代的世俗化个人来说，要在世界里理解一种更深刻、更渊博的意义，方法之一就是阅读伟大的文学小说。我们在阅读它们时将理解，世界以及我们的心灵拥有不止一个中心。
——奥尔罕•帕慕克
2009年，奥尔罕•帕慕克应邀在哈佛大学做了六场演说，即著名的诺顿演说，此为结集。
帕慕克说，在完成《纯真博物馆》之后，他觉得自己在做了三十五年小说家之后，好像回到了原点，他也意识到，这原点并不是他的出发点（这也是许多人的共识）。他慢慢地在心中有了一个他所经历的文学旅程的意象，他觉得是时候谈谈了。
“我希望谈论我的小说创作旅程，沿途经过的站点，学习过的小说艺术和小说形式，它们加于我的限制，我对它们的抗争和依恋。同时，我希望我的讲座成为小说艺术的论文或沉思，而不是沿着记忆的巷道走一趟或者讨论我个人的发展。”

Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions, and shape our politics and beliefs. We use them to construct our relationships, to keep order in our law courts, to interpret events in our newspapers and social media. Storytelling is an essential part of what makes us human.
There have been many attempts to understand what makes a good story – from Joseph Campbell’s well-worn theories about myth and archetype to recent attempts to crack the ‘Bestseller Code’. But few have used a scientific approach. This is curious, for if we are to truly understand storytelling in its grandest sense, we must first come to understand the ultimate storyteller – the human brain.
In this scalpel-sharp, thought-provoking book, Will Storr demonstrates how master storytellers manipulate and compel us, leading us on a journey from the Hebrew scriptures to Mr Men, from Booker Prize-winning literature to box set TV. Applying dazzling psychological research and cutting-edge neuroscience to the foundations of our myths and archetypes, he shows how we can use these tools to tell better stories – and make sense of our chaotic modern world.

This guide to playreading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather then contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts.Ball developed his method during his work as Literary Director at the Guthrie Theater, building his guide on the crafts playwrights of every period and style use to make their plays stageworthy. The text is full of tools for students and practitioners to use as they investigate plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, motivation/obstacle/conflict, theatricality, and the other crucial parts of the superstructure of a play. He includes guides for discovering what the playwright considers the play's most important elements, thus permitting interpretation based on the foundation of the play rather than its details.Using "Hamlet" as illustration, Ball assures a familiar base for illustrating script-reading techniques as well as examples of the kinds of misinterpretation readers can fall prey to by ignoring the craft of the playwright. Of immense utility to those who want to put plays on the stage (actors, directors, designers, production specialists) "Backwards and Forwards" is also a fine playwriting manual because the structures it describes are the primary tools of the playwright.