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The award-winning author and longtime teacher presents a targeted and insightful guide to Staten Island, NY Professional writers Tennis and Morton share the proven techniques of their writing pro- writing fiction and memoir without falling into common traps. Also includes tips for navi- gram, which eschews traditional group critiquing sessions and instead prioritizes staying on gating the writing life: protecting writing time, preserving solitude, finding trusted readers, track, breaking down daunting tasks into manageable pieces, and rediscovering the original and setting goals for publication. COMPOSITION passion behind the work. In addition, they help writers overcome emotional roadblocks— “Brimming with a practitioner’s reflective wisdom and immediately useful insight.... including self-doubt, shame, and perfectionism—that derail countless writing projects. Mattison is so canny and experienced that her insights are hugely relevant for all of us who TARCHERPERIGEE PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-399-18470-3 • $16.00 write. Indeed, this book goes right next to James Wood’s How Fiction Works on the shelf by NEW TITLES for 2016 AVAILABLE JANUARY 2017 the desk.”—Sven Birkerts, author of The Art of Time in Memoir VIKING HARDCOVER • 256 PAGES • 978-0-525-42854-1 • $25.00

- - - STEVEN PINKER DAVID ORR The Sense of Style The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century , illustrated with comic comic with , illustrated You, Too, Could Write a Poem The bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist creates a usage guide for the 21st century, This anthology of reviews and essays by the New York Times poetry columnist collects his applying the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, stylish prose. best work of the past fifteen years. Whether he’s considering the careers of contemporary In this short, practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy,

masters like Louise Glück or Frederick Seidel, sizing up younger American poets like Style of Elements The coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer good prose. Matthea Harvey and Matthew Zapruder, or turning his attention to celebrities and public “More contemporary and comprehensive than The Elements of Style, illustrated with comic figures, Orr brings an impeccable ear and a wealth of technical knowledge to elucidate what strips and cartoons and lots of examples of comically bad writing.”—The New York Times

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Speaking frankly about issues ranging from turning oneself into an au- “Sheds startling new light on the relentless process of making and remaking that has pro- thentic, compelling character to exposing hard truths, these outstanding authors disclose duced the 2003 Nobel Prize-winner’s oeuvre.”—Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford what keeps them going, what gets in their way, and what they love most and least about “[A] highly readable and...insightful account of the processes through which some of the writing about themselves. greatest novels of our time came into being.”—Derek Attridge, University of York “[A] compilation of memoirists at the top of their game seriously and thoughtfully consid- PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-14-312881-6 • $17.00 ering the genre.”—Los Angeles Times PLUME PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-14-218197-3 • $16.00 ALSO AVAILABLE: Why We Write J. M. COETZEE and ARABELLA KURTZ PLUME PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-452-29815-6 • $16.00 2016 The Good Story

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Drawing on great writers like Cervantes and Dostoevsky and psychoanalysts like Freud and Better Living Through Criticism Melanie Klein, Coetzee and Kurtz explore the human capacity for self-examination through a fascinating dialogue about psychotherapy and the art of storytelling. How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth “Coetzee’s writing is characteristically spare and penetrating....Kurtz proves both a lucid Drawing on his own work as well as the long tradition of criticism from Aristotle to Susan expositor and an evocative literary stylist, bringing psychoanalytic ideas and practices to Sontag, the New York Times film critic shows how critical thinking informs artistic creation, life with rare precision and immediacy.”—Literary Review civil action, and interpersonal life.

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- poetry collects his columnist on the shelf by by theshelf on Works Fiction How New York Times York New The Art of Time in Memoir in Time Artof The of author Birkerts, the desk.”—Sven ALICE MATTISON The Kite and the String the Tale with Spontaneity and Control—and Live to Tell How to Write to guide insightful and a targeted presents teacher longtime and author award-winning The - navi for tips Also includes traps. common falling into without memoir and fiction writing readers, trusted finding preserving time, solitude, writing protecting life: the writing gating publication. for goals setting and useful insight.... immediately and wisdom reflective a practitioner’s with “Brimming who us all of for relevant hugely are insights her experienced and that so is canny Mattison Wood’s James thisto book next goesright Indeed, write. • 978-0-525-42854-1 $25.00 VIKING HARDCOVER • 256 PAGES ORR DAVID a Poem Could Write Too, You, by the reviews essays and of anthology This contemporary of careers the considering he’s Whether years. fifteen the past of best work poets American like younger up Seidel, sizing Frederick or Louise Glück like masters public and celebrities to attention his turning or Zapruder, Matthew and Harvey Matthea what elucidate to technicalof knowledge wealth a and ear an impeccable brings Orr figures, not. a poem poetmakes or great—or • 978-0-14-312819-9 $16.00 • 400 PAGES PENGUIN PAPERBACK 2017 FEBRUARY AVAILABLE ATTWELL DAVID J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing Face-to-face with Time manu Coetzee’s on draws Attwell David literary study, and biography this insightful In • 978-0-14-312881-6 $17.00 • 272 PAGES PENGUIN PAPERBACK J. M. COETZEE and ARABELLA KURTZ The Good Story Fiction and Psychotherapy Exchanges on Truth, and Freud like psychoanalysts Dostoevsky and Cervantes like and writers great on Drawing through self-examination for capacity the human explore Klein, Coetzee Kurtz Melanie and storytelling. the art of and psychotherapy dialogue about a fascinating both a lucid proves penetrating....Kurtz and spare characteristically is writing “Coetzee’s to practices ideas and psychoanalytic bringing literary stylist, evocative an and expositor Review Literary immediacy.”— and precision rare with life in length speaks never who almost a writer at of the mind understand to opportunity rare “A another’s one absorb [the of writers] this book lie in ways the pleasures voice....The own his NewThe Republic positions.”— and—sometimes—exchange their claims, adjust critiques, • 978-0-14-310982-2 $16.00 • 208 PAGES PENGUIN PAPERBACK scripts, notebooks, and research papers to explore the creative processes behind the Nobel behind the Nobel processes the creative explore to papers research and notebooks, scripts, work. of his nature self-reflective and the autobiographical illuminating novels, Laureate’s - pro has that remaking and making of process the relentless on newstartling light “Sheds Oxford of University Boehmer, oeuvre.”—Elleke Prize-winner’s the 2003 Nobel duced the of which some through the processes of account and...insightful “[A] highly readable York of University Attridge, being.”—Derek into time came our of novels greatest NEW TITLES • COMPOSITION NEW TITLES • COMPOSITION NEW TITLES • COMPOSITION

ALICE MATTISON CARY TENNIS and DANELLE MORTON The Kite and the String Finishing School

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The award-winning author and longtime teacher presents a targeted and insightful guide to Staten Island, NY Professional writers Tennis and Morton share the proven techniques of their writing pro- writing fiction and memoir without falling into common traps. Also includes tips for navi- gram, which eschews traditional group critiquing sessions and instead prioritizes staying on gating the writing life: protecting writing time, preserving solitude, finding trusted readers, track, breaking down daunting tasks into manageable pieces, and rediscovering the original and setting goals for publication. COMPOSITION passion behind the work. In addition, they help writers overcome emotional roadblocks— “Brimming with a practitioner’s reflective wisdom and immediately useful insight.... including self-doubt, shame, and perfectionism—that derail countless writing projects. Mattison is so canny and experienced that her insights are hugely relevant for all of us who TARCHERPERIGEE PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-399-18470-3 • $16.00 write. Indeed, this book goes right next to James Wood’s How Fiction Works on the shelf by NEW TITLES for 2016 AVAILABLE JANUARY 2017 the desk.”—Sven Birkerts, author of The Art of Time in Memoir VIKING HARDCOVER • 256 PAGES • 978-0-525-42854-1 • $25.00

- - - STEVEN PINKER DAVID ORR The Sense of Style The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century , illustrated with comic comic with , illustrated You, Too, Could Write a Poem The bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist creates a usage guide for the 21st century, This anthology of reviews and essays by the New York Times poetry columnist collects his applying the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, stylish prose. best work of the past fifteen years. Whether he’s considering the careers of contemporary In this short, practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy,

masters like Louise Glück or Frederick Seidel, sizing up younger American poets like Style of Elements The coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer good prose. Matthea Harvey and Matthew Zapruder, or turning his attention to celebrities and public “More contemporary and comprehensive than The Elements of Style, illustrated with comic figures, Orr brings an impeccable ear and a wealth of technical knowledge to elucidate what strips and cartoons and lots of examples of comically bad writing.”—The New York Times

makes a poem or poet great—or not. 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SCOTT Better Living Through Criticism and Truth How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, Susan to Aristotle from criticism of tradition the long as well as work own his on Drawing Times the York New Sontag, • 978-1-59420-483-8 $28.00 PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER • 288 PAGES gram, which eschews traditional group critiquing sessions and instead prioritizes staying on on staying prioritizes instead and sessions critiquing group which eschewsgram, traditional the original rediscovering and pieces, manageable into tasks daunting down breaking track, roadblocks— emotional overcome writers they help addition, In behind thework. passion projects. writing countless derail perfectionism—that and shame, self-doubt, including essayists, journal-keepers, aspiring bloggers, practical for advice and encouragement, tion, au an into oneself turning from ranging issues Speaking frankly about memoirists. and disclose authors truths, these outstanding exposing hard to character compelling thentic, about least and most they love what and in their way, gets what them going, keeps what themselves. about writing - consid thoughtfully and seriously their game of the top at memoirists of compilation “[A] Times Angeles Los the genre.”— ering life. interpersonal civil and action, snappy ideas with complex elucidates He self-aware. and reasonable, genial, is voice “Scott’s varied our why and artdevelops how does he especiallyexplain is well language….What Newsday the equation.”— into fits criticism where pinpointing matter, it to responses J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing NEW TITLES • Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature Face-to-face with Time From twenty landmark memoirists—including Cheryl Strayed, Sue Monk Kidd, and Pat In this insightful biography and literary study, David Attwell draws on Coetzee’s manu- Conroy—comes a definitive text on the craft of autobiographical writing that offers inspira- scripts, notebooks, and research papers to explore the creative processes behind the Nobel tion, encouragement, and practical advice for bloggers, journal-keepers, aspiring essayists, Laureate’s novels, illuminating the autobiographical and self-reflective nature of his work. and memoirists. Speaking frankly about issues ranging from turning oneself into an au- “Sheds startling new light on the relentless process of making and remaking that has pro- thentic, compelling character to exposing hard truths, these outstanding authors disclose duced the 2003 Nobel Prize-winner’s oeuvre.”—Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford what keeps them going, what gets in their way, and what they love most and least about “[A] highly readable and...insightful account of the processes through which some of the writing about themselves. greatest novels of our time came into being.”—Derek Attridge, University of York “[A] compilation of memoirists at the top of their game seriously and thoughtfully consid- PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-14-312881-6 • $17.00 ering the genre.”—Los Angeles Times PLUME PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-14-218197-3 • $16.00 ALSO AVAILABLE: Why We Write J. M. COETZEE and ARABELLA KURTZ PLUME PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-452-29815-6 • $16.00 2016 The Good Story

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Drawing on great writers like Cervantes and Dostoevsky and psychoanalysts like Freud and Better Living Through Criticism Melanie Klein, Coetzee and Kurtz explore the human capacity for self-examination through a fascinating dialogue about psychotherapy and the art of storytelling. How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth “Coetzee’s writing is characteristically spare and penetrating....Kurtz proves both a lucid Drawing on his own work as well as the long tradition of criticism from Aristotle to Susan expositor and an evocative literary stylist, bringing psychoanalytic ideas and practices to Sontag, the New York Times film critic shows how critical thinking informs artistic creation, life with rare precision and immediacy.”—Literary Review civil action, and interpersonal life.

“A rare opportunity to understand the mind of a writer who almost never speaks at length in WWW.PENGUIN.COM/ACADEMIC “Scott’s voice is genial, reasonable, and self-aware. He elucidates complex ideas with snappy his own voice....The pleasures of this book lie in the ways [the writers] absorb one another’s language….What he does especially well is explain how art develops and why our varied PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP responses to it matter, pinpointing where criticism fits into the equation.”—Newsday

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- poetry collects his columnist on the shelf by by theshelf on Works Fiction How New York Times York New The Art of Time in Memoir in Time Artof The of author Birkerts, the desk.”—Sven ALICE MATTISON The Kite and the String the Tale with Spontaneity and Control—and Live to Tell How to Write to guide insightful and a targeted presents teacher longtime and author award-winning The - navi for tips Also includes traps. common falling into without memoir and fiction writing readers, trusted finding preserving time, solitude, writing protecting life: the writing gating publication. for goals setting and useful insight.... immediately and wisdom reflective a practitioner’s with “Brimming who us all of for relevant hugely are insights her experienced and that so is canny Mattison Wood’s James thisto book next goesright Indeed, write. • 978-0-525-42854-1 $25.00 VIKING HARDCOVER • 256 PAGES ORR DAVID a Poem Could Write Too, You, by the reviews essays and of anthology This contemporary of careers the considering he’s Whether years. fifteen the past of best work poets American like younger up Seidel, sizing Frederick or Louise Glück like masters public and celebrities to attention his turning or Zapruder, Matthew and Harvey Matthea what elucidate to technicalof knowledge wealth a and ear an impeccable brings Orr figures, not. a poem poetmakes or great—or • 978-0-14-312819-9 $16.00 • 400 PAGES PENGUIN PAPERBACK 2017 FEBRUARY AVAILABLE ATTWELL DAVID J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing Face-to-face with Time manu Coetzee’s on draws Attwell David literary study, and biography this insightful In • 978-0-14-312881-6 $17.00 • 272 PAGES PENGUIN PAPERBACK J. M. COETZEE and ARABELLA KURTZ The Good Story Fiction and Psychotherapy Exchanges on Truth, and Freud like psychoanalysts Dostoevsky and Cervantes like and writers great on Drawing through self-examination for capacity the human explore Klein, Coetzee Kurtz Melanie and storytelling. the art of and psychotherapy dialogue about a fascinating both a lucid proves penetrating....Kurtz and spare characteristically is writing “Coetzee’s to practices ideas and psychoanalytic bringing literary stylist, evocative an and expositor Review Literary immediacy.”— and precision rare with life in length speaks never who almost a writer at of the mind understand to opportunity rare “A another’s one absorb [the of writers] this book lie in ways the pleasures voice....The own his NewThe Republic positions.”— and—sometimes—exchange their claims, adjust critiques, • 978-0-14-310982-2 $16.00 • 208 PAGES PENGUIN PAPERBACK scripts, notebooks, and research papers to explore the creative processes behind the Nobel behind the Nobel processes the creative explore to papers research and notebooks, scripts, work. of his nature self-reflective and the autobiographical illuminating novels, Laureate’s - pro has that remaking and making of process the relentless on newstartling light “Sheds Oxford of University Boehmer, oeuvre.”—Elleke Prize-winner’s the 2003 Nobel duced the of which some through the processes of account and...insightful “[A] highly readable York of University Attridge, being.”—Derek into time came our of novels greatest NEW TITLES • COMPOSITION NEW TITLES • COMPOSITION NEW TITLES • COMPOSITION

ALICE MATTISON CARY TENNIS and DANELLE MORTON The Kite and the String Finishing School

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The award-winning author and longtime teacher presents a targeted and insightful guide to Staten Island, NY Professional writers Tennis and Morton share the proven techniques of their writing pro- writing fiction and memoir without falling into common traps. Also includes tips for navi- gram, which eschews traditional group critiquing sessions and instead prioritizes staying on gating the writing life: protecting writing time, preserving solitude, finding trusted readers, track, breaking down daunting tasks into manageable pieces, and rediscovering the original and setting goals for publication. COMPOSITION passion behind the work. In addition, they help writers overcome emotional roadblocks— “Brimming with a practitioner’s reflective wisdom and immediately useful insight.... including self-doubt, shame, and perfectionism—that derail countless writing projects. Mattison is so canny and experienced that her insights are hugely relevant for all of us who TARCHERPERIGEE PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-399-18470-3 • $16.00 write. Indeed, this book goes right next to James Wood’s How Fiction Works on the shelf by NEW TITLES for 2016 AVAILABLE JANUARY 2017 the desk.”—Sven Birkerts, author of The Art of Time in Memoir VIKING HARDCOVER • 256 PAGES • 978-0-525-42854-1 • $25.00

- - - STEVEN PINKER DAVID ORR The Sense of Style The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century , illustrated with comic comic with , illustrated You, Too, Could Write a Poem The bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist creates a usage guide for the 21st century, This anthology of reviews and essays by the New York Times poetry columnist collects his applying the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, stylish prose. best work of the past fifteen years. Whether he’s considering the careers of contemporary In this short, practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy,

masters like Louise Glück or Frederick Seidel, sizing up younger American poets like Style of Elements The coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer good prose. Matthea Harvey and Matthew Zapruder, or turning his attention to celebrities and public “More contemporary and comprehensive than The Elements of Style, illustrated with comic figures, Orr brings an impeccable ear and a wealth of technical knowledge to elucidate what strips and cartoons and lots of examples of comically bad writing.”—The New York Times

makes a poem or poet great—or not. 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