The Numéro Cinq Craft Book

 

Fiction

  1. The Consecution of Gordon Lish: An Essay on Form and Influence by Jason Lucarelli
  2. Deforming Form: Outlier Short Stories and How They Work by Richard Farrell
  3. The Use of Moralized Cityscape in Los Angeles Literature by Jill Glass
  4. Shades and Mirrors: Character Gradation in the Novel by Vanessa Blakeslee
  5. Techniques of Emotional Representation and the Construct of the Self in Three Short Stories by Rebecca Martin
  6. There’s a Theme for You (on thematic passage technique in Chekhov short stories) by Julie Marden
  7. Plot Structure in Short Stories by Gwen Mullins
  8. The Mind’s Eye – Character Thought in Fiction by Erin Stagg
  9. Building the Maddening Dream: Techniques for Constructing & Conveying Fictional Worlds by Jacqueline Kharouf
  10. Unwrapping Miss Frost: Time & Structure in John Irving’s In One Person by Jacob Glover

Nonfiction

  1. Thoughts on the Meditative Essay by Robert Vivian
  2. The Essay As An Open Field by Robert Vivian
  3. A Visual Approach to Syntactical and Image Patterns in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Anna Maria Johnson
  4. There’s a Reason They Call it Show AND Tell: How to Reveal Thoughts, Emotions, and Motivations Without Sentimentality by Laura-Rose Russell
  5. Zola’s Horse: Using a Reporter’s Techniques to Strengthen Fiction and Creative Nonfiction by Russell Working
  6. Nature Writing in America by Adam Regn Arvidson
  7. Seven Things I Learned from Reading Fifteen List Essays by John Proctor
  8. Sanders, Shklovsky, and the Role of the Personal Essayist by John Proctor
  9. Montaigne & Didion, Integrating Universal Ideas & Personal Narrative by John Proctor
  10. A Kayaker, a Fisherman, and a Scientist Walk into a Story by Adam Regn Arvidson
  11. Picking Brains and Giving Proper Credit by Adam Regn Arvidson
  12. Gimme a B, Gimme a U, Gimme a T, What’s That Spell? (Part One & Two) by Adam Regn Arvidson
  13. Wine List (on the Rhetoric of Lists in Narrative) by Adam Regn Arvidson
  14. James Agee’s Unconventional Use of Colons  by Anna Maria Johnson

Poetry

  1. The Connoisseurship of the Word | Interview with David Ferry by Peter Mishler
  2. A “Dark Star” Passes Through It by Leslie Ullman
  3. Translation, Adaptation and Transformation: The Poet as Translator by Richard Jackson
  4. On the Prayerful in Poetry by William Olsen
  5. Charmed Objects: Poetry and Childhood by Nancy Eimers
  6. Who Am I? What the Lowly Riddle Reveals by Julie Larios
  7. The Exile and Return of Poetry by Ralph Angel

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How to Read Like a Writer

  1. Douglas Glover’s annotated copy of Ted Kooser’s essay “Small Rooms in Time”
  2. Douglas Glover’s annotated copy of Elizabeth Tallent’s story “No One’s A Mystery”
  3. Douglas Glover’s annotated copy of D. H. Lawrences poem ‘Kissing and Horrid Strife”
  4. Douglas Glover’s annotated copy of Alice Munro’s “Meneseteung”

 

Video

How To Write A Novel by Douglas Glover

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Appendix

Student stories based on Douglas Glover’s structure exercise. You can find the exercise in his book Attack of the Copula Spiders.

  1. Shame by Benjamin Woodard
  2. Gunslinger by Casper Martin
  3. Angel of Death by Casper Martin