The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

How to read and why

Harold Bloom

The Glass Universe

Dava Sobel

Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

Michael Chabon

The Curtain

Milan Kundera

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Neil Gaiman

Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style

Kurt Vonnegut

Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars

Ray Bradbury

Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays

Siri Hustvedt

Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories

Charlie Jane Anders

Writing Fiction

Amanda Boulter

Of Hospitality

Jacques Derrida

Feel Free: Essays

Zadie Smith