Titles starting with M from judymedia

A novelist offers professional and inspirational advice to would-be writers in this anecdotal how-to guide.

In this book, her extremely eccentric magnum opus, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein attempts to analyze "every kind there is of men and women," and also meditates on her own writing, on the making of "The Making of Americans," and on America itself. Stein believed the book to be a masterpiece on the order of "Remembrance of Things Past" and "Ulysses", but it is generally considered to be endless, wordy, repetitious, and insanely cryptic. She finished writing it in 1911 but couldn't find a publisher until 1925.

A history of the development of rock music from a small and transgressive genre of jazz and bebop into a mainstream 20-billion dollar industry. Goodman, a former editor at Rolling Stone, describes the "head-on collision of rock and commerce" in Faustian terms, emphasizing the degree to which the marketplace tamed and de-clawed the musicians. Not content with a backstage tour, Goodman takes the reader skeleton-hunting through the closets of music industry giants, and a close encounter with commerce, creativity, and ego.