Books like 'Writing Fiction: A Practical Guide from New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School'
Readers who enjoyed Writing Fiction: A Practical Guide from New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School by Alexander Steele & Gotham Writers' Workshop also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTwin children Jeanne and Simon want to solve the mystery of their origins. In retracing the bitter history of their mother, who is about to die, other characters come into the story—witnesses or key players able to assist in the investigation. Carried aloft by poetic language, the inquiry pursued by Jeanne and Simon unfolds in a dreamlike atmosphere... -
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![Wild Love by Rebecca Jenshak]()
Wild Love by Rebecca Jenshak
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJohnny Maverick is a lot of things.Great hockey player.Loyal friend.Rule breaker.Always up for a good time.And now, he’s my new roommate.It’s only for a few weeks while I intern for the Wildcats—his new NHL team.And there are some pros to living with my hot and ridiculous friend (or is that ridiculously hot?). He’s fun and unexpectedly sweet, and he reminds me not to take myself too seriously... -
![Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, Macha Louis Rosenthal]()
Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, Macha Louis Rosenthal
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSince its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays... -
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alphabet by Inger Christensen
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAwarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's translation of alphabet introduces Inger Christensen's poetry to US readers for the first time. Born in 1935, Inger Christensen is Denmark's best known poet... -
![Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy]()
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of the Day to White Teeth... -
![The Book of Frank by C.A. Conrad, Eileen Myles]()
The Book of Frank by C.A. Conrad, Eileen Myles
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWinner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features additional "Frank" poems and an essay by Eileen Myles.Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a "voyeuresque surreal portrait," The Book of Frank is also, in the words of candid portrayal of human cruelty and its resultant fantasies of escape... -
![All Tied Up by Ali Parker]()
All Tied Up by Ali Parker
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI’ve never walked down the aisle, but I get paid to stand beside it.Why I’m a wedding planner is beyond me.Oh yeah. I love the pretty dresses, the food, the glamour and glitz.Getting dressed up and owning the night, though I always go home alone.It’s a weird setup.Being in business is all I’ve ever wanted, and yet the one I chose depresses me beyond belief.Either way, I’m damn good at my job... -
![His Christmas List 2022 by T.L. Swan]()
His Christmas List 2022 by T.L. Swan
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsT L Swan's Christmas Anthology.A collection of Christmas stories to warm your heart.Featuring....The Christmas Angel.Zoe never thought she’d be grateful for a flat tyre.But when a handsome policeman pulled over to help her.Things changed.Constable Dylan Andrews was every Christmas wish come true.And when he offered to give her a private escort home.She knew she was in for one hell of a ride... -
![Web Scalability for Startup Engineers by Artur Ejsmont]()
Web Scalability for Startup Engineers by Artur Ejsmont
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPublisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Design and build scalable web applications quicklyThis is an invaluable roadmap for meeting the rapid demand to deliver scalable applications in a startup environment... -
![Mr. Handsome Hunk: A Manhattan Men Novel by Jacob Parker]()
Mr. Handsome Hunk: A Manhattan Men Novel by Jacob Parker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI’ve wanted her my whole life.My best friend’s little sister. But things didn’t work out like they were supposed to.And now she’s back in my life and I’m not sure how I feel about it.She left for college without looking back, and I’m a billionaire bachelor with my eye on lots of prizes now.I’m not the boy she walked away from.Manhattan is my playground, and my family owns the city... -
![Fake Love (For Now) by Penny Wylder]()
Fake Love (For Now) by Penny Wylder
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpending the night with a guest in my lodge was a mistake.Getting caught the next morning by her parents is… much worse.Then I really messed it up by panicking and claiming to be her fiancé.I know, I know, but I could tell she was freaking out.I thought I was doing her a favor.Now we’re stuck pretending to be in love. It’s not all bad— she's gorgeous, funny, smart... -
![Altazor/Temblor del cielo by Vicente Huidobro]()
Altazor/Temblor del cielo by Vicente Huidobro
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAltazor y Temblor de cielo (1931), poemas en verso y prosa, respectivamente, son las abras clave del chileno Huidobro, uno de los importadores de las vanguardias a España. Altazor es una intensa abra metafísica, ademas de un ingenioso juego de palabras, culminación del creacionismo... -
![Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Player's Guide by Jason Bulmahn, Stephen Radney-MacFarland]()
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Player's Guide by Jason Bulmahn, Stephen Radney-MacFarland
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTake your Game to the Next Level!Explore new and uncharted depths of roleplaying with the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player's Guide! Empower your existing characters with expanded rules for all 11 Pathfinder Roleplaying Game core classes and seven core races, or build a new one from the ground up with one of six brand-new, 20-level base classes... -
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![Viento del pueblo. II tomos by Miguel Hernández]()
Viento del pueblo. II tomos by Miguel Hernández
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Los poetas somos viento del nacemos para pasar soplando a través de sus poros y conducir sus ojos y sus sentimientos hacia las cumbres más hermosas", confiesa Miguel Hernández en la dedicatoria de "Viento del pueblo" (1936-1937). Y así surgen los poemas de este libro con su nota dinámica, su tono épico y su febril entusiasmo... -
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Trilce by César Vallejo
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings'Trilce' is one of the great monuments of 20th-Century Hispanic poetry, as important in Hispanic letters as 'The Wasteland' and 'The Cantos' in the anglophone world, and all the more amazing for having been composed in remote Peru... -
![That Wild Player: A Standalone Bad Boy Billionaire & (Former) Good Girl Romantic Comedy by Nadia Lee]()
That Wild Player: A Standalone Bad Boy Billionaire & (Former) Good Girl Romantic Comedy by Nadia Lee
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI'm a good girl. I work hard, follow the rules, and only want a future with Mr. Right, complete with a white picket fence, 1.5 children and a dog. What do I have instead? A "Dear Jane" email from my ex, who CCd it to my best friends and their fiancés. My friends realizing that I've never had an orgasm is the cherry on the train-wreck cake of my love life... -
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Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness by Bob Kaufman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPublished in 1965, Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness assembles ten years' work of Bob Kaufman, celebrated in San Francisco as the original Beat and in France as "the American Rimbaud."Kaufman, one of fourteen children born in Louisiana to a German Jewish father and a Black Catholic mothers, ran away to sea when he was thirteen, circling the globe nine times in the next twenty years... -
![Flagger by Laramie Briscoe, Lindsay Hopper]()
Flagger by Laramie Briscoe, Lindsay Hopper
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFast Cars Quarter-miles Broken homes Vulnerable hearts Cash Montgomery likes fast cars, fast women, and living his life only as far as he can see with his own two eyes. There are very few people in his life who he answers to. One of them being his little brother Remington (Remy)... -
![Lunchtime Chronicles: Deep Dish by Xyla Turner]()
Lunchtime Chronicles: Deep Dish by Xyla Turner
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsErin:My goal in life was to ensure that restaurants met food, health and safety guidelines. Nobody deserved to get sick, or worse, because restaurants were negligent. Even the bossy guru of the Pizza Joint. He was a tyrant, and his reviews confirmed that1) he was a tyrant, but2) the pizza was delicious... -
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![Draupadi by Mahasweta Devi]()
Draupadi by Mahasweta Devi
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMahasweta Devi situates her story against the Naxalite movement (1967-71), the Bangladesh Liberation War (1971) of West Bengal and the ancient Hindu epic of Mahabharata, engaging with the complex politics of Bengali identity and Indian nationhood... -
![The Occasions by Eugenio Montale]()
The Occasions by Eugenio Montale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEugenio Montale's second book of poetry was first published in 1939. This book is his most experimental work, but a work no less tradition-saturated than Eliot's... -
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![International Guy: New York by Audrey Carlan]()
International Guy: New York by Audrey Carlan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe International Guy Series continues with the second rousing book from #1 New York Times bestselling author Audrey Carlan. New York, New York. In the city that never sleeps, it’s still easy to dream… I’m a professional. That doesn’t mean I can’t lose control. I’m only human. But I’d better watch myself with Skyler Paige... -
![Big Man's Second Chance (Big Men Series) by Penny Wylder]()
Big Man's Second Chance (Big Men Series) by Penny Wylder
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFootball star. Massive body. Big smile. Big... everything.That's the guy I fooled around with in college and never expected to see again.Years later, and there he is, the famous football pro. He strolls back into my life with his deliciously huge body crammed into a suit that looks ready to split apart... -
![Naughty Lessons by Ajme Williams]()
Naughty Lessons by Ajme Williams
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA little bit of harmless fun on an online platform led to the biggest scandal of my life . . . and three hot professors in my bed.“Welcome to Naughty Lessons. Are you ready for the hottest class of your life?”It took one touch from them to turn my nice into naughty.But it wasn’t just my body they had . . .They also had my heart... -
![Midnight Ballerina by Cori Williams]()
Midnight Ballerina by Cori Williams
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“When I grow up, I’m going to be a dancer. I just know it.” Of course, life doesn’t always work out how you want. Just ask Monroe Hartley. After burying her childhood dream, Monroe works toward a new one, determined to prove her independence. When life catches up with her, stripping away her resources, she slowly turns toward an unlikely profession... -
![Falling for My Nurse by Theresa Paolo]()
Falling for My Nurse by Theresa Paolo
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJosh will have to reconcile his past…In order to make Kat his future.After surviving a real-life nightmare, Josh Wagner is sent home from his dream college on crutches. Bedridden and tormented by flashbacks, he’s just seen his world shattered and his baseball scholarship go up in smoke... -
![On the Floor by Jennifer LaCross]()
On the Floor by Jennifer LaCross
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWho knew that working together and living on the same floor with the guy of her dreams would be so hard? Well, everyone. When Juilliard hopeful, Rachel Harris, loses her mother in her senior year of high school, everything changes. Taking care of her family becomes her top priority, her own happiness falling to the wayside... -
![Pucking My Polar Opposite by Livvy Stone]()
Pucking My Polar Opposite by Livvy Stone
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy college sweetheart, a mega-sexy hockey god, betrayed me with my best friend. Now he wants a second chance. Ethan Anderson, my brother’s best friend, is a vision of masculine perfection,with smokin’ abs and a tight behind begging to be squeezed.I have no idea why he dated me, a homebody that no one noticed... -
![Romantic Hero by Jeris Jean]()
Romantic Hero by Jeris Jean
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA love letters, hidden identities, second chance MM romance. CalumMaking out with the campus librarian wasn’t the most professional way for me to kick off my first semester as a professor at the College of Coleridge Cliffs. I don’t even know what came over me. It was probably just that it was Halloween, and it was late, and I was lonely. Oh, and the fact that he is the world’s hottest human... -
![England and Other Stories by Graham Swift]()
England and Other Stories by Graham Swift
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThese twenty-five new stories mark Graham Swift's return to the short form after seven acclaimed novels and confirm him as a master storyteller. They unite into a richly peopled vision of a country that is both a crucible of history and a maze of contemporary confusions...Categorized as:
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![The Bonus by Alice Lingard]()
The Bonus by Alice Lingard
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn outrageous proposal. An unexpected bonus. Millionaire Rory (Raw) Westgrove needs a new PA. More importantly, he wants Lacey Simpson in his bed. He’s arrogant enough to believe his outrageous proposal is the answer to both problems. Lacey Simpson is nobody’s fool – she knows his game... -
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![Jaded Heart by Sadie Stuart]()
Jaded Heart by Sadie Stuart
Rated: 2.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey call me the fixer.The PR Fixer.As in public relations.Did you sleep with your assistant at the product launch party and now you’re up for CIO against candidates with far more stellar reputations? I’m the woman who can fix that.Did you get arrested with hookers and cocaine in your sports car on a joyride after your latest concert in a zero-drug policy country? I can fix that too...Categorized as:
university workplace romance new-adult enemies-to-lovers fiction contemporary billionaire
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