General Reading:
Anders, Charlie Jane, All the Birds in the Sky, 2016
Bellow, Saul, Seize the Day, 1956
Cole, Teju, Open City, 2011
Diaz, Junot, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, 2007
Forster, EM, Aspects of the Novel, 1927
Franzen, Jonathan, Freedom, 2010
Franzen, Jonathan, 'Why Bother: The Harper's Essay', How to be Alone, 1996, 2002
Kafka, Franz, Metamorphosis, 1916, 1933
Lethem, Jonathan, The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction, Genre and how to break it
Matheson, Richard, I am Legend, 1954
McCarthy, Tom, Remainder, 2005
Tom McCarthy interview in The Believer http://www.believermag.com/issues/200806/?read=interview_mccarthy
McEwan, Ian, On Chesil Beach, 2007
Offill, Jenny, Department of Speculation, 2014
Shields, David, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, 2010, Sections 1-71
Smith, Zadie, NW, 2012
Updike, John, Couples, 1968, pp.1-22
Wood, James, 'Monica Ali's Novelties' in The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel, 2004
Secondary Reading
Amis, Martin, The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Jonathan Cape, 2001).
Baxter, Charles, Burning Down the House (Graywolf Press, 1997).
Bradbury, Ray, Zen in the Art of Writing (Joshua Odell Editions, 1996).
Editors of the Paris Review, The Paris Review Interviews vol.1, vol.2, vol.3 (Canongate, 2007).
Forster, EM, Aspects of the Novel (Edward Arnold, 1927).
Franzen, Jonathan, How to be Alone (Fourth Estate, 2002).
Gardner, John, On Becoming a Novelist (Perennial Library, 1983).
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers (Vintage Books, 1991).
Kundera, Milan, The Art of the Novel (Grove Press, 1988).
Le Guin, Ursula, Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew, (Eighth Mountain Press, 1999)
Lodge, David, The Art of Fiction, 1992.
Mullan, John, How Novels Work (OUP, 2006).
Shields, David, Reality Hunger (Hamish Hamilton, 2010).
Thomas, Scarlett, Monkeys with Typewriters: How to Write Fiction and Unlock the Secret Power of Stories, 2012
VanderMeer, Jeff, Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction, 2013
Wood, James, How Fiction Works (Jonathan Cape, 2008).