shopping cart
Save up to 30% on our Staff Picks
Call us:  800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.

Find Books


Read the City


Win Free Books!


PowellsBooks.news


Powell's Q&A, Q&A | December 13, 2009

Norberto Fuentes: IMG Powell's Q&A: Norberto Fuentes



Describe your latest project. Norton has just published The Autobiography of Fidel Castro, a novel that took seven years of my life to complete as I... Continue »
  1. $19.56 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

Customer Comments

Gabriel Boehmer has commented on (1) product.

How Fiction Works by James Wood
How Fiction Works

Gabriel Boehmer, August 27, 2008

This is a modern classic that's guaranteed to captivate writers and readers of literary fiction. It's an "Elements of Style" for literature. You'll be jotting notes on the back of Stumptown receipts so you won't forget which novels and short stories to pick up on your next trip to Powell's. It's worth reading alone for Wood's closing tribute to Willa Cather.
Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No
(10 of 18 readers found this comment helpful)



  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.