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Lectures on Literature
Vladimir Nabokov
4.32 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.28 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
Jeanette Winterson
4.09 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Stephen King: The Art of Darkness
Douglas E. Winter
4.16 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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This Craft of Verse
Jorge Luis Borges
4.31 average rating, · 2k ratings
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The Common Reader
Virginia Woolf
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The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Martin Amis
4.09 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
Steven Weisenburger
4.07 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Essayism
Brian Dillon
4.14 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Borges on Writing
Jorge Luis Borges
4.07 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
Jane Hirshfield
4.34 average rating, · 1k ratings
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Essays One
Lydia Davis
4.28 average rating, · 818 ratings
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Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry
Louise Glück
4.12 average rating, · 819 ratings
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The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
Wallace Stevens
4.14 average rating, · 792 ratings
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The Art of the Poetic Line
James Longenbach
4.03 average rating, · 703 ratings
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How to Write About Contemporary Art
Gilda Williams
4.15 average rating, · 587 ratings
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