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You already have the tools to become a gifted writer; what you need is the spark. Harvard creative writing professor and acclaimed author Bret Anthony Johnston brings you an irresistible interactive guide to the craft of narrative writing. … more

A Kite in the Wind is an anthology of essays by 20 veteran writers and master teachers. While the contributors offer specific, practical advice on such fundamental aspects of craft as characterization, character names, the first person poin… more

” Sea Level is a rich, masterful novel about the hazards of romantic love, the complicated tapestry of filial love, the meaning of work, and the self-delusion and hypocrisies that make the world go round. King’s setting is the wide world - … more

1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional charac… more

Shortlisted for the National Book Award: “Joan Silber writes with wisdom, humor, grace, and wry intelligence. Her characters bear welcome news of how we will survive.”—Andrea BarrettIntense in subject yet restrained in tone, these stories… more

From a rising literary star “in the tradition of Carol Shields and A. S. Byatt” comes this luminous story of a contemporary man’s metamorphosis.Andrea Barrett and Michael Cunningham have lauded Stacey D’Erasmo for the beauty of her language… more

Stevenson’s brooding historical romance demonstrates his most abiding theme—the elemental struggle between good and evil—as it unfolds against a hauntingly beautiful Scottish landscape, amid the fierce loyalties and violent enmities that ch… more

“Luminous….Each [story] is rich and independent and beautiful and should draw Barrett many new admirers.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewRanging across two centuries, and from the western Himalaya to an Adirondack village, these wonderf… more

The Fall 2007 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Andrea Barrett. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.National… more

“A towering landmark of postwar Realism… . A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved.” — David Foster WallaceOtto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete wo… more

Ship Fever and Other Stories is a collection of eight short stories/novellas by the author Andrea Barrett. The stories weave historical and fictional characters, moving through the past and present. They center on themes of scientific disco… more

“An evocative panorama of America…on the cusp of enormous change” (Newsday) by the National Book Award-winning author of Ship Fever.In the fall of 1916, America prepares for war—but in the community of Tamarack Lake, the focus is on t… more

In the spring of 1898, A. E.(Alexandria) Bartram—a spirited young woman with a love for botany—is invited to join a field study in Yellowstone National Park. The study’s leader, a mild-mannered professor from Montana, assumes she is a ma… more