The Holy Book of Literary Craft
Dark Matters, What Lies Beneath
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Prolegomena
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Structure and Technique
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Fiction
- Plot Structure in Three Short Stories (Flannery O’Connor, William Trevor, John Cheever): Essay on Conflict and Form by Michael Carson
- Plot Structure in Three Stories (Charles D’Ambrosio, Mojca Kumerdej, Gabriel Garcia Marquez): Essay on Form by Nicole Chu
- Man in the Holocene: Point of View/point of view/Frisch by Gary Garvin
- Weird Plots for Strange Stories: Alternatives to Conventional Plot Structure by Julie Jones
- Building the Maddening Dream: Techniques for Constructing & Conveying Fictional Worlds by Jacqueline Kharouf
- Using Everything: Pattern Making in Gertrude Stein’s “Melanctha,” Robert Walser’s “Nothing at All,” and Sam Lipsyte’s “The Wrong Arm” by Jason Lucarelli
- The Consecution of Gordon Lish: An Essay on Form and Influence by Jason Lucarelli
- There’s a Theme for You (on thematic passage technique in Chekhov short stories) by Julie Marden
- Techniques of Emotional Representation and the Construct of the Self in Three Short Stories (Steve Almond, James Baldwin, Tim O’Brien) by Rebecca Martin
- Plot Structure in Short Stories (Tobias Wolff, Ken Smith) by Gwen Mullins
- Character Gradation and Coherence: An Examination of Novels by Jane Austen, Anne Tyler and Mark Haddon by Robin Oliveira
- Plot, Desire, & Resistance in Two Speculative Short Stories by Jennifer Pun
- The Art of the Long Sentence by Frank Richardson
- Emotion of Multitudes: Subplots in Novels (Jane Austen, Anne Tyler) by Shambhavi Roy
- The Mind’s Eye – Character Thought in Fiction (Lorrie Moore) by Erin Stagg
- Reliable and Unreliable Narrators in Novels with Multiple Points of View by Rashmi Vaish
- Race & Art in America: The Invisible Man meets Django Unchained by Laura K. Warrell
- Alice Munro’s “Baptising” & James Joyce’s “The Dead” | Plotting with Multiple Antagonists by Russell Working
Nonfiction
- Time Control in the Personal Essay (Joan Didion and E. B. White) by Rosanna Gargiulo
- The Use of Moralized Cityscape in Los Angeles Literature (Joan Didion, Gavin Lambert, Nathanael West) by Jill Glass
- Now and Then: The Binary Dimension of the Authorial Voice in Memoir (Mary Karr) by Susan Hall
- A Visual Approach to Syntactical and Image Patterns in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Anna Maria Johnson
- Seven Things I Learned from Reading Fifteen List Essays by John Proctor
- Montaigne & Didion, Integrating Universal Ideas & Personal Narrative by John Proctor
- There’s a Reason They Call it Show AND Tell: How to Reveal Thoughts, Emotions, and Motivations Without Sentimentality by Laura-Rose Russell
- The Personal Essay and the Pain of Experience: Communicating to the Broadest Possible Audience by Sophfronia Scott
- Thoughts on the Meditative Essay by Robert Vivian
- The Essay As An Open Field by Robert Vivian
- Zola’s Horse: Using a Reporter’s Techniques to Strengthen Fiction and Creative Nonfiction by Russell Working
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The Tao of Reading
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How to Read
- Douglas Glover’s two lectures on How to Read and Analyze a Text
- Douglas Glover’s annotated copy of Ted Kooser’s essay “Small Rooms in Time”
- Douglas Glover’s annotated copy of Elizabeth Tallent’s story “No One’s A Mystery”
- Douglas Glover’s annotated copy of D. H. Lawrence’s poem “Kissing and Horrid Strife”
- Douglas Glover’s annotated copy of Alice Munro’s “Meneseteung”
- Four Weddings and a Funeral: Notes on Narrative Form — Douglas Glover
- The Full Monty: Notes on Narrative Form — Douglas Glover
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The Way of the Novel
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How to Write a Novel
- How To Write A Novel by Douglas Glover
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On Some Technical Aspects of Literary Prose
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Lecture
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Building Sentences
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The Sentence
- Building Sentences: The Complete Short Course — Douglas Glover | National Post
- “On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature” — Robert Louis Stevenson
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Appendix
Stories based on Douglas Glover’s structure exercise. You can find the exercise in his book Attack of the Copula Spiders.
- Shame by Benjamin Woodard
- Gunslinger by Casper Martin
- Angel of Death by Casper Martin
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