Literary Journals
Gettysbury Review
New Letters
Tin House
Missouri Review
Ninth Letter
Threepenny Review
Writers and Books
General and Inspirational Writing Books:
Anne Lamott: Bird by Bird
Natalie Goldberg: Writing Down the Bones
Strunk and White: Elements of Style
Brenda Ueland: If You Want To Write
Richard Rhodes: How To Write
Books on Writing Fiction:
John Gardner: The Art of Fiction
Pam Painter and Ann Bernays: What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers
Janet Burroway: Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
Rust Hills: Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular
Poetry Guides:
Judson Jerome: The Poet's Handbook
Jack Myers & Michael Simms: The Longman Dictionary of Poetic Terms
John Frederick Nims: An Introduction to Poetry
Mary Oliver: A Poetry Handbook
Robert Pinsky: The Sounds of Poetry
Some random names taken from our shelves, in case you need new reading ideas:
Fiction:
Alice Munro
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sandra Cisneros
V.S. Naipaul
Jose Saramago
Michael Chabon
Virginia Woolf
Tim O'Brien
Christina Stead
Jonathan Franzen
Toni Morrison
Saul Bellow
Eudora Welty
John Cheever
Zadie Smith
Don DeLillo
Margaret Atwood
Poetry:
Robert Pinsky
Mary Oliver
Denise Duhamel
Robert Frost
Elizabeth Bishop
W. S. Merwin
Sharon Olds
C. K. Williams
Philip Levine
Galway Kinnell
Gail Mazur
John Ashbery
Kathy Fagan
Thomas Lux
L i-Young Lee
Pablo Neruda
Jane Kenyon
Charles Simic
Mark Strand
Tomas Transtromer