"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009" Phillip Lopate is the author of many books, including the essay collections Getting Personal (Basic), Against Joie de Vivre (Simon & Schuster), Portrait of My Body (Doubleday), and Bachelorhood (Little, Brown), as well as the anthology, The Art of the Personal Essay (Doubleday). Among his other books is Waterfront: A Walk around Manhattan (Crown). He teaches writing at Columbia University, and...

"Winner of the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, Best Critical/Biographical Category, Mystery Writers of America" "Finalist for the 2012 Marfield Prize, The National Award for Arts Writing, Arts Club of Washington" "One of The Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Joyce Carol Oates" Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize–winning critic and longtime book columnist for the Washington Post. He is the author of four collections of essays,...

"Colm Tóibín – Winner of the 2017 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation" "Colm Tóibín, Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame 2015" "Nominee for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism" "One of The Guardian's Best Books of 2015, selected by Blake Morrison" "One of The Guardian's Best Books of 2015, selected by Nicci Gerrard" "One of The Guardian's Readers'...

Writers on... Drink' illustrates the complex, funny and fraught relationships between writers and this most human of vices.  This collection of thoughts on alcohol, poured onto the page, gives a taste of the literary world's greatest insights on imbibing.  Pens-down, and bottoms-up! The 'Writers on…' series is a collection of extracts, anecdotes and occasional philosophical musings from the world's most well known authors. This book of quotes,...

Writers on… Atheism' provides the ultimate literary definition of atheism. It contains a vast array of atheism quotes, arguments for and against this 'new religion', as well as a history of atheism. A fascinating look into the links between religion and morality, this book provides an inspirational look at great minds, atheist authors, and their thoughts on both old and new atheism. Showcasing the writing of some of the world's most influential...

Writers on... Food' illustrates the complex relationships between writers and their victuals. Whether you eat to live or live to eat, this anthology of books for cooks, motivational stories, quotes and poems, provides a fascinating insight into history's most enduring meditations on gastronomy and dining. Vacillating between gluttony, apathy and pure appreciation, this collection offers an intriguing overview of that most universal of needs - food....

Learn the craft of writing from those who know it best. This is the Writers on Writing Vol.1 - 4 Omnibus — An Author's Guide where your favorite authors share their ultimate secrets in becoming and being an author. Includes: The Infrastructure of the Gods by Brian Hodge, The Writer's Purgatory by Monique Snyman, Why Rejection is Still Important by Kevin Lucia, Real Writers Steal Time by Mercedes M. Yardley, What Right Do I Have to Write by Jasper...

Michael Wood is professor emeritus of comparative literature at Princeton University and the author of many books, including Yeats and Violence, Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much, and The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction (Princeton). He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He lives in Princeton. From one of today's most distinguished critics, a beautifully written exploration...

John Burnside is a poet, novelist, and memoirist whose recent books include Still Life with Feeding Snake and Ashland & Vine. He has won many awards for his poetry, including the T. S. Eliot, Forward, Whitbread, and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and the Guardian, and he writes a regular nature column for the New Statesman. He is professor of English at the University of St. Andrews,...