“Of course, if AI can cure cancer, bravo. I’m all for it. But even with cancer cured, death will still arrive somehow.”

SAN FRANCISCO -- Mike Krukow admitted that he felt a bit of melancholy when he arrived at Oracle Park to call the final game of his iconic 36-year broadcasting career with the Giants on Sunday. But it...

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

Jane Austen's House is trialling a new project offering limited opportunities for visitors to sit and write in Jane Austen's bedroom.Successful applicants for this brief 'Writer in Residence' scheme a...

Jonathan Franzen’s 2001 novel was celebrated for its canny portrayal of American life. It’s also a remarkable act of literary creation.

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"Can you hear it?" asked Excelsior Bay Books in Excelsior, Minn., referring to the message on the shop's sidewalk chalkboard, which

The Trump administration is squeezing struggling Americans with benefit cuts, but ordinary people are stepping up to help.

This is a special compilation devoted to a subject very close to my heart and currently consuming a large percentage of my waking hours: writing.

The most pernicious scams focused on English-speaking writers these days come from overseas: publishing/marketing/fake literary agency scams from the Philippines, and ghostwriting/publishing/marketing...

History has shown that arresting librarians and booksellers has never led to greater freedom or liberty.

Two poems by Keng Xiong

Author Terry R. Bacon has assembled a list of eight ways for writers to create morally gray characters readers will root for.

After finishing his latest book, Karan Mahajan couldn’t decide which opening passage was best. Vote below for the one you prefer.

There Have Been Nearly 23,000 Book Bans in Public Schools Since 2021.

Author Susan Wiggs shares 10 very simple steps on how to be a writer that (at the very least) worked for her.

Every cliff, every cove, every twist and turn—yes

Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.

Across the country, politicians are trying to decide what Americans are allowed to read. Books are being pulled from school shelves, challenged in public libraries, and targeted for removal not becaus

Can parents ever learn to text like their kids? Should they even try?

A hundred and fifteen years ago, Christian Larson wrote one of the first popular self-help manifestos. The Optimist’s Creed argued that it was a choice, and a useful promise. Not to promise t…

As his new novel is published, the US author talks about nurturing the next generation of creatives, debating Sam Altman – and why he writes on a boat in San Francisco Bay

Being alive at all is the most extraordinary stroke of good luck any of us will ever experience.

Oh look, another dude wants Democrats to compromise on abortion

Page 56 of Trump’s proposed budget calls for the closure of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The ONLY source of federal funding for libraries.

The Magic AI Can't Touch

Recent developments in the world of copyright have been making many writers rethink their attitudes toward copyright registration and reversion of publishing rights. Because many artificial intelligen...

"The Flamingo Café" by Laurie Lathem, winner of the Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize