{"title":"Language Arts \u0026 Disciplines","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore books on writing, rhetoric, linguistics, grammar, composition, and the art of communication for students, writers, and language enthusiasts.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"across-the-universe-the-past-present-and-future-of-the-crossword-puzzle-hardcover-3","title":"Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNatan Last\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn entertaining and eye-opening look at the history of crossword puzzles, who constructs them, and why crosswords matter as both a reflection of and influence on our culture \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Should be at the top of every gift guide for word nerds and puzzle enthusiasts everywhere.\" --\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A gridful of insight and pleasure.\"--Stefan Fatsis, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWord Frea\u003c\/i\u003ek and \u003ci\u003eUnabridged\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Wordle to Spelling Bee, we live in a time of word game mania. 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Commissioned by Macmillan to revise Strunk's book, White edited the 1959 and 1972 editions of The Elements of Style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.1 x 4.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 23, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51980240126247,"sku":"9780205309023","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1002\/2079\/7223\/files\/zLAUM45BUR9780205309023.webp?v=1788351842"},{"product_id":"unstuck-a-writers-guide-hardcover","title":"Unstuck: A Writer's Guide - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRamona Ausubel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Most Anticipated Book of 2026 from LitHub\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Ramona Ausubel has poured so much humor and wisdom and practically useful counsel into this extraordinary book, a guide for both writing and living.\" --Karen Russell, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Antidote\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnstuck\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e101 Doorways Leading from the Blank Page to the Last Page \u003c\/i\u003eis about staying in love with your writing: feeling excited, mischievous, productive, and hopeful--the opposite of being stuck. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCritically acclaimed, award-winning author and beloved teacher Ramona Ausubel offers 101 exercises that promise to welcome you back to the page again and again; to reinvigorate your process and help you see your writing through to the end. Full of personal stories and hard-earned wisdom of a veteran writer, \u003ci\u003eUnstuck\u003c\/i\u003e is written in the first person, human to human, writer to writer. Practical, clear, and welcoming, \u003ci\u003eUnstuck\u003c\/i\u003e offers immediately useable strategies for beginning, continuing, and finishing a piece of writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOrganized into doorways and keys, \u003ci\u003eUnstuck\u003c\/i\u003e turns problems into possibilities, offers keys to put into use right now, all designed to lead the writer back to the art, not toward an outside idea or formula. With Ausubel's steady, encouraging advice--find your doorway, unlock the lock, and get writing again.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRamona Ausubel is the author of five books, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Last Animal\u003c\/i\u003e which was a national bestseller, received the National Book Foundation Science + Nature Prize and was a Barnes \u0026amp; Noble book of the month. Her previous books are \u003ci\u003eAwayland\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003estories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Guide to Being Born\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNo One is Here Except All of Us\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of the PEN\/USA Fiction Award, the Cabell First Novelist Award and has been a finalist for both the California and Colorado Book Awards and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review \u003c\/i\u003edaily, \u003ci\u003eOne Story\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. She is a professor at Colorado State University and has taught in the Bennington Writing Seminars, Tin House Writing Workshop, Writing by Writers, the Community of Writers, Bread Loaf Environmental, Writing Workshop Paris and elsewhere. She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.6 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 14, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51980240945447,"sku":"9781963108712","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1002\/2079\/7223\/files\/gqIlLlF-pk9781963108712.webp?v=1788351843"}],"url":"https:\/\/theluminousbookshop.com\/collections\/language-arts-and-disciplines.oembed?page=6","provider":"The Luminous Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}