Burning Down the House
by Charles Baxter | 
Reflections
by Diana Wynne Jones | 
The Wave in the Mind
by Ursula K. Le Guin | 
Living by Fiction
by Annie Dillard | 
To Show and to Tell
by Phillip Lopate | 
The Writing of Fiction
by Edith Wharton | 
Reality Hunger
by David Shields | 
New Ways to Kill Your Mother
by Colm Toibin |
The View from the Cheap Seats
by Neil Gaiman |
Break Every Rule
by Carole Maso | 
The Art of the Novel
by Milan Kundera |
The Art of Subtext
by Charles Baxter | 
Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
by Elmore Leonard |
Romancing the Beat
by Gwen Hayes | 
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed
by Meghan Daum | 
Writing
by Marguerite Duras | 
Dimestore
by Lee Smith | 
The Naked Truth About Self-Publishing
by Jana DeLeon | 
Let's Get Visible
by David Gaughran | 
The Negative Trait Thesaurus
by Angela Ackerman |
Essays on Storytelling. In over 30 essays, written over 20 years, one of the world's great story-tellers meditates on story-telling. Warm, funny, generous, entertaining, and above all, deeply considered, they offer thoughts on a wide variety of topic, including the origin and composition of Philip's own stories, the craft of writing and the story-tellers who have meant the most to him. The art of story-telling is everywhere present in the essays themselves, in the instantly engaging tone, the vivid imagery and the striking phrases, the resonant anecdotes, the humour and learnedness. Together, they are greater than the sum of their parts.