Write as if from the desk of the Bard himself with this Shakespeare-themed stationery set. Often considered to be the greatest poet in the English language, William Shakespeare is the writer of such classic plays as Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. His work is known for its elegant, rhythmic (and often bawdy) verse and universal themes such as love and marriage, war and politics, madness and revenge. Now readers can celebrate their love of Shakespeare with this finely crafted literary stationery set. Designed for the letter-writers, note-takers, and card-senders of the world, this stationery set includes: - 20 blank notecards, featuring classic Shakespeare quotes - 20 envelopes - 20 embossed gold sticker seals - A hardcover pocket journal - Keepsake box for storage Designed to look like a classic book of Shakespearean verse, this collectible set gives fans a unique way to celebrate the words and legacy of their favorite playwright.

Step into the Regency era with this Jane Austen-themed stationery set. Possibly the most famous and beloved female author of all time, Jane Austen has been delighting readers for over two centuries with such classic novels as Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma. Hailed by many as an early feminist, she is known for her witty prose, elegant style, and insightful social commentary. Now readers can celebrate their love of Jane with this finely crafted literary stationery set. Designed for the letter-writers, note-takers, and card-senders of the world, this stationery set includes: - 20 blank notecards, featuring classic Austen quotes - 20 envelopes - 20 embossed gold sticker seals - A hardcover pocket journal - Keepsake box for storage Designed to look like one of Jane’s classic novels, this collectible set gives Austen fans a unique way to celebrate the words and legacy of their favorite writer.

Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities to reconceive creativity, authorship, and their relationship to language. Confronted with an unprecedented amount of texts and language, writers have the opportunity to move beyond the creation of new texts and manage, parse, appropriate, and reconstruct those that already exist. In addition to explaining his concept of uncreative writing, which is also the name of his popular course at the University of Pennsylvania, Goldsmith reads the work of writers who have taken up this challenge. Examining a wide range of texts and techniques, including the use of Google searches to create poetry, the appropriation of courtroom testimony, and the possibility of robo-poetics, Goldsmith joins this recent work to practices that date back to the early twentieth century. Writers and artists such as Walter Benjamin, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Andy Warhol embodied an ethos in which the construction or conception of a text was just as important as the resultant text itself. By extending this tradition into the digital realm, uncreative writing offers new ways of thinking about identity and the making of meaning.

Write as if from the desk of Charlotte Brontë with this deluxe note card set, housed in a finely crafted keepsake book box. Charlotte Brontë is the celebrated author of the classic novel Jane Eyre, whose independent and courageous heroine has been enchanting audiences for over 150 years. Now readers can celebrate their love of Charlotte Brontë with this finely crafted deluxe note card set. Designed for the letter-writers, note-takers, and card-senders of the world, this set includes: 20 blank note cards featuring classic Brontë quotes 20 envelopes 20 embossed gold sticker seals A ruled pocket journal A keepsake box for storage Designed to look like one of her classic novels, this collectible set gives Brontë fans a unique way to celebrate the words and legacy of their favorite writer.

For almost 70 years, Shakespeare and Company, the English-language bookstore in Paris, has been a home-away-from-home for celebrated writers--including Jorge Luis Borges, James Baldwin, A. M. Homes, and Dave Eggers--as well as for young, aspiring authors and poets. Visitors are invited to read in the library, share a pot of tea, and sometimes even live in the shop itself, sleeping in beds tucked among the towering shelves of books. Since 1951, more than 30,000 have slept at the "rag and bone shop of the heart." This first, fully illustrated history of the bookstore draws on a century's worth of never-before-seen archives. Photographs and ephemera are woven together with personal essays, diary entries, and poems from more than seventy contributors, including Allen Ginsberg, Anaïs Nin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sylvia Beach, Nathan Englander, Dervla Murphy, Jeet Thayil, David Rakoff, Ian Rankin, Kate Tempest, and Ethan Hawke. With hundreds of images, it features Tumbleweed autobiographies, precious historical documents, and beautiful photographs, including ones of such renowned guests as William Burroughs, Henry Miller, Langston Hughes, Alberto Moravia, Zadie Smith, Jimmy Page, and Marilynne Robinson. Tracing more than 100 years in the French capital, the story touches on the Lost Generation and the Beats, the Cold War, May '68, and the feminist movement--all while reflecting on the timeless allure of bohemian life in Paris.--Adapted from dust jacket and publisher website.