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Muse

Author : Jonathan Galassi
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385353359
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Muse written by Jonathan Galassi and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux: a first novel, at once hilarious and tender, about the decades-long rivalry between two publishing lions, and the iconic, alluring writer who has obsessed them both. Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent publishing houses in New York, whose shabby offices on Union Square belie the treasures on its list. Working with his boss, the flamboyant Homer Stern, Paul learns the ins and outs of the book trade—how to work an agent over lunch; how to swim with the literary sharks at the Frankfurt Book Fair; and, most important, how to nurse the fragile egos of the dazzling, volatile authors he adores. But Paul’s deepest admiration has always been reserved for one writer: poet Ida Perkins, whose audacious verse and notorious private life have shaped America’s contemporary literary landscape, and whose longtime publisher—also her cousin and erstwhile lover—happens to be Homer’s biggest rival. And when Paul at last has the chance to meet Ida at her Venetian palazzo, she entrusts him with her greatest secret—one that will change all of their lives forever. Studded with juicy details only a quintessential insider could know, written with both satiric verve and openhearted nostalgia, Muse is a brilliant, haunting book about the beguiling interplay between life and art, and the eternal romance of literature.

The Muse

Author : Jessie Burton
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062409948
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Muse written by Jessie Burton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young women—a Caribbean immigrant in 1960s London, and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spain—and the powerful mystery that ties them together. England, 1967. Odelle Bastien is a Caribbean émigré trying to make her way in London. When she starts working at the prestigious Skelton Institute of Art, she discovers a painting rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, a young artist of immense talent and vision whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades. The excitement over the painting is matched by the intrigue around the conflicting stories of its discovery. Drawn into a complex web of secrets and deceptions, Odelle does not know what to believe or who she can trust, including her mesmerizing colleague, Marjorie Quick. Spain, 1936. Olive Schloss, the daughter of a Viennese Jewish art dealer and an English heiress, follows her parents to Arazuelo, a poor, restless village on the southern coast. She grows close to Teresa, a young housekeeper, and Teresa’s half-brother, Isaac Robles, an idealistic and ambitious painter newly returned from the Barcelona salons. A dilettante buoyed by the revolutionary fervor that will soon erupt into civil war, Isaac dreams of being a painter as famous as his countryman Picasso. Raised in poverty, these illegitimate children of the local landowner revel in exploiting the wealthy Anglo-Austrians. Insinuating themselves into the Schloss family’s lives, Teresa and Isaac help Olive conceal her artistic talents with devastating consequences that will echo into the decades to come. Rendered in exquisite detail, The Muse is a passionate and enthralling tale of desire, ambition, and the ways in which the tides of history inevitably shape and define our lives.

Prejudice

Author : Daphne Muse
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606156844
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book Prejudice written by Daphne Muse and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of stories about all sorts of prejudice by authors including Sandra Cisneros, Jacqueline Woodson, Lynda Barry, and others.

Maggie Finds Her Muse

Author : Dee Ernst
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250768349
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Maggie Finds Her Muse written by Dee Ernst and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sparkling romantic comedy starring a bestselling author who goes to Paris to overcome writer's block and rediscovers family, independence, and love along the way. All Maggie Bliss needs to do is write. Forty-eight years old and newly single (again!), she ventures to Paris in a last-ditch effort to finish her manuscript. With a marvelous apartment at her fingertips and an elegant housekeeper to meet her every need, a finished book—and her dream of finally taking her career over the top—is surely within her grasp. After all, how could she find anything except inspiration in Paris, with its sophistication, food, and romance in the air? But the clock is running out, and between her charming ex-husband arriving in France for vacation and a handsome Frenchman appearing one morning in her bathtub, Maggie’s previously undisturbed peace goes by the wayside. Charming and heartfelt, Dee Ernst's Maggie Finds Her Muse is a delightful and feel-good novel about finding love, confidence, and inspiration in all the best places.

To My Muse

Author : Nicola M. Cameron
Publisher : Belaurient Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book To My Muse written by Nicola M. Cameron and published by Belaurient Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’m in a fake relationship with my celebrity crush. How did I wind up in a real-life romance trope? When too much tequila and an enabling BFF put my newest and oh-so-spicy romance novel into the hands of its inspiration, sexy British actor Tom Morrison, I’m horrified (because hello complete stranger, I thought of you while writing these smexy scenes, now excuse me while I spontaneously combust from embarrassment). I need to get the book back before Tom takes out a restraining order on me—or worse, reads the book out loud on social media. Except that’s not what happens. Thanks to a strategic lie and an Oscar-winning knight I’m now pretending to be Tom’s girlfriend while we get his dream project made. Somehow, my screwball plan landed me in the middle of my very own Cinderella story, Hollywood style. Even better, I have a shot at a real life HEA with a gorgeous, hilarious man who thinks I’m amazing… …so why do I get the feeling that disaster is about to strike?

The Tenth Muse

Author : Catherine Chung
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062574094
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Tenth Muse written by Catherine Chung and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM: Los Angeles Times * USA Today * O, the Oprah Magazine * Buzzfeed * The Rumpus * Entertainment Weekly * Elle * BBC * Christian Science Monitor * Electric Literature * The Millions * LitHub * Publishers Weekly * Kirkus * Refinery29 * Thrillist * BookBub * Nylon * Bustle * Goodreads An exhilarating, moving novel about a trailblazing mathematician whose research unearths her own extraordinary family story and its roots in World War II From the days of her childhood in the 1950s Midwest, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem. As she matures from a girl of rare intelligence into an exceptional mathematician, traveling to Europe to further her studies, she must face the most human of problems—who is she? What is the cost of love, and what is the cost of ambition? These questions grow ever more entangled as Katherine strives to take her place in the world of higher mathematics and becomes involved with a brilliant and charismatic professor. When she embarks on a quest to conquer the Riemann hypothesis, the greatest unsolved mathematical problem of her time, she turns to a theorem with a mysterious history that may hold both the lock and the key to her identity, and to secrets long buried during World War II. Forced to confront some of the most consequential events of the twentieth century and rethink everything she knows of herself, she finds kinship in the stories of the women who came before her, and discovers how seemingly distant stories, lives, and ideas are inextricably linked to her own. The Tenth Muse is a gorgeous, sweeping tale about legacy, identity, and the beautiful ways the mind can make us free.

The Tenth Muse

Author : Judith Jones
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307498255
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Tenth Muse written by Judith Jones and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by the legendary cookbook editor who was present at the creation of the American food revolution and played a pivotal role in shaping it • “Engrossing. . . . The Tenth Muse lets you pull up a chair at the table where American gastronomic history took place.”—O, The Oprah Magazine Living in Paris after World War II, Jones broke free of bland American food and reveled in everyday French culinary delights. On returning to the States she published Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The rest is publishing and gastronomic history. A new world now opened up to Jones as she discovered, with her husband Evan, the delights of American food, publishing some of the premier culinary luminaries of the twentieth century: from Julia Child, James Beard, and M.F.K. Fisher to Claudia Roden, Edna Lewis, and Lidia Bastianich. Also included are fifty of Jones's favorite recipes collected over a lifetime of cooking-each with its own story and special tips. “Lovely. . . . A rare glimpse into the roots of the modern culinary world.”—Chicago Tribune

A Black and Endless Sky

Author : Matthew Lyons
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1684427118
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book A Black and Endless Sky written by Matthew Lyons and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Tor Nightfire's "Horror Books We're Excited About in 2022"! "Lyons burnishes his reputation as a rising horror star . . . [and] keeps the pages flying with fast-paced chills." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) From the author of The Night Will Find Us comes a white-knuckled horror-thriller set across the American Southwest. Road trips can be hell. Siblings Jonah and Nell Talbot used to be inseparable, but ever since Jonah suddenly blew town twelve years ago, they couldn’t be more distant. Now, in the wake of Jonah’s divorce, they embark on a cross-country road trip back to their hometown of Albuquerque, hoping to mend their broken relationship along the way. But when a strange accident befalls Nell at an abandoned industrial site somewhere in the Nevada desert, she begins experiencing ghastly visions and exhibiting terrifying, otherworldly symptoms. As their journey through the desolate American Southwest reveals the grotesque change happening within his sister, one thing becomes clear to Jonah: It’s not only Nell in there anymore. Pursued by a mysterious stranger who knows far more about Nell’s worsening condition than they let on, the siblings race to find a way to help Nell and escape the desert before they’re met with a violent, bloody end. But there are far worse things lurking in the desert ahead... some of them just beneath the skin.

The Passionate Muse

Author : Keith Oatley
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199767637
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Passionate Muse written by Keith Oatley and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hybrid book that alternates sections of an original short story, "One Another", with chapters that illuminate how emotion and fiction interact.

Muse (A Short Story)

Author : Robert Swartwood
Publisher : RMS Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muse (A Short Story) written by Robert Swartwood and published by RMS Press. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every writer needs a muse. Some are needier than others. Some are hungrier. Some demand blood. A new story of suspense, from USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood. PRAISE FOR ROBERT SWARTWOOD "Robert Swartwood is the next F. Paul Wilson — if F. Paul Wilson's DNA was spliced with Michael Marshall Smith. If you haven't yet read Swartwood, you're missing out." —Brian Keene "Robert Swartwood is a sharp writer, his prose lean and mean as a razor blade. He notches up the tension from chapter to chapter like a master story-teller, keeping you reading long into the night." —The Man Eating Bookworm "An exceptional novelist." —Douglas Clegg

A Muse and a Maze

Author : Peter Turchi
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595341943
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book A Muse and a Maze written by Peter Turchi and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his characteristic talent for finding the connections between writing and the stuff of our lives (most notably in his earlier hit Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer), Peter Turchi ventures into new, and even more surprising, territory. In A Muse and a Maze, Turchi draws out the similarities between writing and puzzle-making and its flip side, puzzle-solving. He teases out how mystery lies at the heart of all storytelling. And he uncovers the magic—the creation of credible illusion—that writers share with the likes of Houdini and master magicians. In Turchi’s associative narrative, we learn about the history of puzzles, their obsessive quality, and that Benjamin Franklin was a devotee of an ancient precursor of sudoku called Magic Squares. Applying this rich backdrop to the requirements of writing, Turchi reveals as much about the human psyche as he does about the literary imagination and the creative process. With the goal of giving writers new ways to think about their work and readers new ways to consider the books they encounter, A Muse and a Maze suggests ways in which every piece of writing is a kind of puzzle. The work argues that literary writing is defined, at least in part, by its embrace of mystery; offers tangrams as a model for the presentation of complex characters; compares a writer’s relationship to his or her narrator to magicians and wizards; offers the maze and the labyrinth as alternatives to the more common notion of the narrative line; and concludes with a discussion of how readers and writers, like puzzle solvers, not only tolerate but find pleasure in difficulty. While always balancing erudition with accessibility, Turchi examines the work of writers as various as A. A. Milne, Dashiell Hammett, Truman Capote, Anton Chekhov, Alison Bechdel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Antonya Nelson, Vladimir Nabokov, Charles D’Ambrosio, Michael Ondaatje, Alice Munro, Thomas Bernhard, and Mark Twain, elaborating and illuminating ways in which their works expand and deliver on the title’s double entendre, A Muse and a Maze. With 100 images that range from movie stills from Citizen Kane and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to examples of sudokus, crosswords, and other puzzles; from Norman Rockwell’s famous triple self-portrait to artwork by Charles Richie; and from historical arcana to today’s latest magic, A Muse and a Maze offers prose exposition, images, text quotations, and every available form of wisdom, leading the reader step-by-step through passages from stories and novels to demonstrate, with remarkable clarity, how writers evolve their eventual creations.

Reading for Storyness

Author : Susan Lohafer
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421429195
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Reading for Storyness written by Susan Lohafer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short story has been a staple of American literature since the nineteenth century, taught in virtually every high school and consistently popular among adult readers. But what makes a short story unique? In Reading for Storyness, Susan Lohafer, former president of the Society for the Study of the Short Story, argues that there is much more than length separating short stories from novels and other works of fiction. With its close readings of stories by Kate Chopin, Julio Cortázar, Katherine Mansfield, and others, this book challenges assumptions about the short story and effectively redefines the genre in a fresh and original way. In her analysis, Lohafer combines traditional literary theory with a more unconventional mode of research, monitoring the reactions of readers as they progress through a story—to establish a new poetics of the genre. Singling out the phenomenon of "imminent closure" as the genre's defining trait, she then proceeds to identify "preclosure points," or places where a given story could end, in order to access hidden layers of the reading experience. She expertly harnesses this theory of preclosure to explore interactions between pedagogy and theory, formalism and cultural studies, fiction and nonfiction. Returning to the roots of storyness, Lohafer illuminates the intricacies of classic short stories and experimental forms of surreal, postmodern, and minimalist fiction. She also discusses the impact of social constructions, such as gender, on the identification of preclosure points by individual readers. Reading for Storyness combines cognitive science with literary theory to present a compelling argument for the uniqueness of the short story.

A Gathering of Ghosts

Author : Karen Maitland
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472235894
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book A Gathering of Ghosts written by Karen Maitland and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pagans tackle the Knights of St John with terrible consequences in the new medieval thriller by Queen of the Dark Ages, Karen Maitland. Set on the wilds of Dartmoor, this is a ghostly tale for fans of The Essex Serpent, C. J. Sansom's Shardlake series and The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse. 'A dark read... fear and hysteria are portrayed with claustrophobic skill' The Times on THE PLAGUE CHARMER 1316. On the wilds of Dartmoor stands the isolated Priory of St Mary, home to the Sisters of the Knights of St John. People journey from afar in search of healing at the holy well that lies beneath its chapel. But the locals believe Dartmoor was theirs long before Christianity came to the land. And not all who visit seek miracles. When three strangers reach the moor, fear begins to stir as the well's waters run with blood. What witchcraft have the young woman, the Knight of St John and the blind child brought with them? The Sisters will need to fight for everything they hold dear as the ghosts of the Old World gather in their midst.

Pocket Muse 2

Author : Monica Wood
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
ISBN 13 : 9781582975993
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Pocket Muse 2 written by Monica Wood and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a spectrum of writing prompts, photos, and advice for all types of writing including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

The Muse Asylum

Author : David Czuchlewski
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780142000601
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Muse Asylum written by David Czuchlewski and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2002-03-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An ingeniously plotted postmodernist mystery. . . . David Czuchlewski writes with imagination, vision, and style.”—Joyce Carol Oates Who is Horace Jacob Little, and what is he trying to hide? Legend has is that not even his agent had met him, that they communicated via post office box. Horace Jacob Little had insisted on blank covers for all his books. . . . No one knew what he looked like or where he lived. . . . I used to imagine him: a death-row inmate, a mild-mannered accountant, a disfigured cripple. . . . He was none of these, as it turned out, nothing my imagination could conjure. Andrew Wallace, recent Princeton graduate and troubled genius, spends his days in the Overlook Psychiatric Institute—the Muse Asylum—writing about a dark conspiracy against him engineered by the elusive author Horace Jacob Little. When fellow classmate Jake Burnett, a novice reporter, arrives on the hospital grounds to visit Andrew, he learns that Andrew’s problems run much deeper than simple paranoia and obsession. Along with Lara Knowles, the girl they both love, they try to break through the shadows of the enigmatic Horace Jacob Little. Instead, they find themselves caught in a twisted game of reflections and reversals, where each seems to be pursuing the other—for love, for success, or for a far more sinister purpose. “[A] cleverly devised, sharply composed, entertaining and moving novel.”—The Wall Street Journal

Out of this World

Author : Mark Beaumont
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 9781849383684
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Out of this World written by Mark Beaumont and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROCK & POP. This title is updated to include the release of their fifth studio album "The Resistance" and their 2009/2010 world tour. "Out of This World" is the definitive story of Muse and features thousands of words of exclusive, previously unprinted interview transcripts taken between 1998 and 2007 by author Mark Beaumont. Charting the bands stratospheric rise from a Battle of the Bands contest in Teignmouth to being the first band ever to sell out the new Wembley Stadium, Muse's story is one of UK rock's most fascinating and incendiary tales. This edition follows their every step from 16 year old punk kids to Wembley Stadium, featuring everyone of their albums and the wild nights, theories and falsettos they experienced along the way.

My Mountain Man Muse

Author : Olivia T. Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781691465675
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book My Mountain Man Muse written by Olivia T. Turner and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've always dreamed of renting a cottage in the mountains for a week to write a romance novel and now I'm finally here. I have everything I need.- Log cabin on a secluded mountain (check)- A week off work to do nothing but write (check)- A light snow falling outside as I sit under a blanket at the desk (check)- An amazing love story that writes itself (what's the opposite of a check?)It's my second day here and I haven't written one word.Can you still get writer's block if you're not a real writer?It's all a disaster until I'm wandering through the woods and see some much-needed inspiration.It comes in a big, bearded, growly package.His name is Jayden Rowe and he's a rugged mountain man who says he owns everything on this mountain.Including me.Suddenly, with Jayden's shirtless body to gawk at while he chops wood, the words start flowing and my book comes alive.But when it's time to write the love scene, the words dry up and I have nothing.What I need is a little mountain man inspiration to get the book going again.Research. That's what I need.Hot, sweaty, sultry research with my gorgeous new mountain man friend.That's when I decide that I'm going to seduce Jayden......for research purposes of course.