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Chekhov: Artist, Magician by Nan Cuba (PDF)
Way-Seeking by Nan Cuba (PDF)
Voices de la Luna: A Journal of Arts & Letters 9:4 (2017): 27-28

ON THE CRAFT OF FICTION

The Art of Time in Fiction by Joan Silber
The Art of Description by Mark Doty
The Art of Subtext by Charles Baxter
Burning Down the House by Charles Baxter
Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life by Charles Baxter and Peter Turchi
The Half Known World: On Writing Fiction by Robert Boswell
Writing Fiction by Janet Burroway
Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form by Madison Smartt Bell
The letters of Anton Chekhov (available in several editions)
Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster
The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft by Andrea Barrett and Peter Turchi
The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story by Frank O’Connor
Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
The Story Behind the Story: 26 Stories by Contemporary Writers and How They Work by Andrea Barrett and Peter Turchi
Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies by Sol Stein
Because You Have To: The Writing Life by Joan Frank
The Paris Review Interviews

A FEW FAVORITE BOOKS

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Collected Stories by Anton Chekhov
Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Dubliners by James Joyce
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Metamorphosis & Other Stories by Franz Kafka
Selected Stories by Alice Munro
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
The Risk Pool by Richard Russo
Straight Man by Richard Russo
The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley
Ordinary Love and Good Will by Jane Smiley
Collected Stories by Peter Taylor
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Aloft by Chang Rae Lee
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Like Life by Laurie Moore
Collected Stories by Grace Paley
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
The Mother Who Stayed by Laura Furman
Collected Stories by Isaac Babel
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
The Collected Stories, William Treavor
Stories, Katherine Mansfield
Ideas of Heaven, Joan Silber
Fools, Joan Silber
Improvement, Joan Silber
Olive Kittridge, Elizabeth Strout
Go, Went, Gone, Jenny Erpenbeck
Signs Preceding the End of the World, Yuri Herrera
Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
My Year of Meats, Ruth L. Ozeki

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