The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers Education

The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers EducationBy Ayn Rand Edited by Robert Mayhew Introduction by Peter Schwartz In what way is the role of the subconscious different in writing than in editing? Should a writer's work "propagandize" for his particular philosophy of life? How does a writer acquire a distinctive style? How does one find good ideas for writing? Ayn Rand addresses these, and countless other, questions about the craft of writing in this extraordinary book. Culled (by Robert Mayhew)

She also highlighted contrasts among authors by comparing their depictions of nature and of New York City

Later the city grew and the man grew

rational adult

if not individual rights and capitalism

Atlas Shrugged and the Metaphysics of Values

Biographies on Ayn Rand’s life

Emotions as a Product of Ideas

how the arguments for egoism and against altruism found in Rand’s different writings reflect her development as a thinker

The course ends with a short discussion of a constitution for an Objectivist society

Peikoff offers personal insights into the real Ayn Rand—the thinker

including a new formulation of the concept of infinity

and Copernicus's heliocentric theory