My Creative Writing Prof, Elizabeth Ruth recommends:

BOOKS TO READ

Editing/Having Faith in Ones Work:

Writer’s Gym Anthology (read)

The Notebooks Anthology (Canadian)

Stephen King’ s On Writing

For Setting:

Tamarindus Indica –

Dionne Brand

Stones - Timothy Findley

The Shadow of the Wind –Carlos R. Zafon

Smoke – E. Ruth (read)

Character:

Lori Lansens –The Girls  (read)

Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry (the giant)

Mordecai Richler – Barney’

s Version

E. Ruth – Ten Good Seconds of Silence

Narrative/Language:

Helen Humphreys –

The Lost Garden

Don McKay poetry

Anne Michael’s Fugitive Pieces

Fathom by Tim Bowling

Plot + Structure:

Jim Coetzee –

Disgrace

Carol Shields – Larry’

s Party

T. Findley – The Piano Man’

s Daughter

Jonathan Lethem –

Motherless Brooklyn

Dialogue:

Hemingway –Hills like white elephants  (read)

Michael Winter – The Pallbearer’s Daughter

Clare Allan – Poppy Shakespeare

Nalo Hopkinson –Skin Folk

Dramatic Tension:

Raymond Carver – Fat ***

Grace Paley – An Interest in Life

Alice Munro – Royal Beatings