Literature

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

By Simon Winchester

The Pen Commandments: A Guide for the Beginning Writer

By Steven Frank

The Lie That Tells a Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction

By John Dufresne

Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds

By Harold Bloom

Selected Essays

By George Orwell

Why Orwell Matters

By Christopher Hitchens

Take on the Street

By Arthur Levitt

Sandy Koufax

Brotherhood of the Bomb

By Gregg Herken

Bug

The Gatekeepers

By Jacques Steinberg

Longitudes and Attitudes

By Thomas L. Friedman

The Writer and the World

By V.S. Naipaul

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