The Writer Who Stayed

Writing Analytically

David Rosenwasser

Why We Read

Josephine Greywoode

The Elements of Journalism

Bill Kovach

The Art and Business of Online Writing How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention

Nicolas Cole

Intimations

Zadie Smith

Serious Noticing Selected Essays

James Wood

Feel free

Zadie Smith

How to Write About Contemporary Art

Gilda Williams

On writing

Charles Bukowski

Writing Feature Stories How to Research and Write Articles - from Listicles to Longform

Matthew Ricketson

A-Z Great Modern Writers

Caroline Taggart

On Writing Well

William Knowlton Zinsser

Why I Write (Penguin Great Ideas)

George Orwell

Words Matter

Elizabeth Keating

Good On Paper

Rachel Cantor

Men Explain Things to Me

Rebecca Solnit

This Thing Called Literature

Andrew Bennet

Everybody Writes

Ann Handley

Writing about American Literature

Karen Gocsik

How to Write a Sentence And How to Read One

Stanley Fish

More Baths Less Talking Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time Itself

Nick Hornby

Stylish Academic Writing

Helen Sword

Writing Science

Joshua Schimel

The Best American Magazine Writing 2009

Changing My Mind

Zadie Smith

On Solitude

Michel de Montaigne

Writing Tools

Roy Peter Clark

The know it all book

David Abrahamsen

Writing for Social Scientists

Howard S. Becker

On Literature

Umberto Eco

The ghost writer

Philip Roth

In Their Own Words Songwriters Talk About the Creative Process

Bill DeMain

Songwriters on Songwriting

Paul Zollo

The Modern Library Writer's Workshop A Guide to the Craft of Fiction

Stephen Koch

Writing Life Stories

Bill Roorbach

How Our Lives Become Stories

Paul John Eakin

The Complete Prose

Woody Allen

Notes of a Nervous Man

James Lileks