Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots
by William Wallace Cook
TRUE
Some have argued there are only 3 real plots in literature, or 7, or 36, but Cook, a pulp writer so prolific he was known as "the man who deforested Canada," outlined 1,462 separate scenarios (for exa... (Tom)
Sequential Drawings
by Richard McGuire
MADE-UP
If Plotto is the over-the-top, maximalist solution to building a story, McGuire's Sequential Drawings is the minimalist alternative. Working in the vestigal, forgotten space of spot illustrations (tho... (Tom)
Swing Time
by Zadie Smith
MADE-UP
Smith became famous, fast, for the precocious pyrotechnics of her debut novel, White Teeth, but this novel, her fifth, is her quietest and most patient, perhaps because it is all filtered through a si... (Tom)
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