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How to Speak and Write Correctly
by Joseph Devlin
Available on: Audio Download
This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not “properly”) create sentences, use figures of speech, write letters, and more, all while choosing the right words and doing it with style.
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Amy Tan on Creativity
by Amy Tan
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved.
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Book Writing for Fun and Profit
by Brian R. Scott
Available on: Audio Download
Book Writing for Fun and Profit (audio series) helps writers and authors publish and profit from their writing and achieve their dreams of becoming a respected book author.
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Frank McCourt: Teacher Man
by Frank McCourt
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio | Online Video
Frank McCourt discusses his long-awaited book about how his 30-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer.
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C. S. Lewis and the Problem of Pain
by Corbin Carnell
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
Veritas Forums are university events that engage students and faculty in discussions about life's hardest questions and the relevance of Jesus Christ to all of life.
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Elizabeth Gilbert: A Different Way to Think About Creative Genius
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Available on: Video Download | Online Video
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius.
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Andrei Codrescu Lecture on Writing and Publishing
by Andrei Codrescu
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
Lecture by Andrei Codrescu focusing on writing and publishing, especially as it relates to his experience in Romania.
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Interview with Jack Canfield
by Jack Canfield
Available on: Audio Download
In this engaging and motivating interview, Jack Canfield, the author of The Success Principles and co-author of the phenomenally popular Chicken Soup for the Soul series, talks with Audible's Publisher Beth Anderson about what it really takes to be successful.
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A Conversation with Joseph Finder and Malcolm Gladwell
by Joseph Finder
Available on: Audio Download
Joseph Finder and Malcolm Gladwell are both best-selling authors who write about issues from the business world – one in fiction and the other in nonfiction.
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William S. Burroughs Class on Creative Reading
by William Burroughs
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
First half of a William S. Burroughs lecture on Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and A Short Trip Home, and Stephen King's The Shining.
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Interview with Elmore Leonard
by Elmore Leonard
Available on: Audio Download
In this exclusive interview, best-selling author Elmore Leonard talks with Audible's Beth Anderson about his long and prolific career, his writing process, and what it's like to have an inside track on Hollywood.
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Conversations with John Eldredge
by John Eldredge
Available on: Audio Download
John Eldredge, best-selling author, is also a counselor and lecturer.
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Interview with Jack Welch
by Jack Welch
Available on: Audio Download
In this interview, Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, talks to Jane Friedman, President and CEO of HarperCollins Publishers, about his new book, Winning.
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Women of the World
by Susan Orlean
Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief and My Kind of Place, takes readers on an irresistible tour of the world via its subcultures...
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The Craft of Science Fiction
by Joe Haldeman
Available on: Audio Download | Video Download | Online Video
Joe Haldeman provides a sneak preview of an upcoming novel whose story plays out in MIT’s past, present and distant future.
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Myth and the Creative Process
by Isabel Allende
Available on: Online Audio
One of the most popular and acclaimed Latin American writers talks about her latest book Kingdom of the Golden Dragon and how myth and the spirit-world have greatly influenced many of her novels.
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Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs Class
by Allen Ginsberg
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
Allen Ginsberg class with William Burroughs. Ginsberg begins by reading from Burroughs's work, including his book Nova Express.
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Allen Ginsberg Class, Literary History of the Beat generation, The 50's
by Allen Ginsberg
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
Allen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing William S. Burroughs's book Junky and his first meeting with Herman Hunke.
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Writing Our Way to God
by N.T. Wright
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
As Bishop of Durham for the Church of England, N.T. Wright is an internationally renowned author and scholar, who has taught New Testament studies for twenty years at Cambridge, McGill and Oxford Universities.
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William S. Burroughs Class on Writing Sources
by William Burroughs
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
First half of a class with William S. Burroughs discussing various sources for writing, including dreams, voices (external and internal), and cut-up, giving examples from his own work.
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At War With the Word
by R.V. Young
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
Dr. Young is Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of English at North Carolina State University…
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Allen Ginsberg Class on Vividness and Close Observation in Writing
by Allen Ginsberg
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
First half of a class with Allen Ginsberg discussing vividness and close observation in writing, particularly the writers who do it, including Walt Whitman, haiku, Jack Kerouac, Reznikoff, Imagists and William Carlos Williams.
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William S. Burroughs Workshop, Jack Kerouac Conference
by William Burroughs
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
First half of a workshop with William S. Burroughs comparing his works to those of Jack Kerouac, discussing their writing techniques.
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The Book Author's Copyright Protection
by Brian Scott
Available on: Audio Download
Our free audio book, The Book Author's Copyright Protection helps you understand copyright, its online application, and how to fully protect your book from copyright thieves and scumbags.
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Robert Creeley Lecture on Poetry in Motion
by Robert Creeley
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
A lecture by Robert Creeley on poetry in motion.
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