Books on Writing We Like
Oakley Hall, The Art and Craft of Novel Writing and How Fiction Works
Charles Baxter, Burning Down the House and The Business of Memory
John Gardner, The Art of Fiction
Grace Paley, Just as I Thought and The Collected Stories
John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever
Ted Solotaroff, A Few Good Voices in My Head
Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners
Phillip Lopate, The Art of the Personal Essay
Anne Charters, The Story and Its Writer
Alan Cheuse and Lisa Alvarez, Writer's Workshop in a Book: The Squaw Valley Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction, Introduction by Richard Ford