In third grade, Allie Millington was given a writing prompt — a different kind of hero — and decided the hero should be a pencil. The story took third place. Holding the certificate, she knew what she...

Conversations with writers, agents, booksellers, and other book people about what a life in books costs — and what it gives back.

Conversations with writers, agents, booksellers, and other book people about what a life in books costs — and what it gives back.

Damien Fry remembered nothing before the bus.

It could be said Shakespeare's plays lend themselves to screen adaptation more readily than scripts from modern theater.

It does not require a large leap of faith to assume Baldwin had some personal agenda behind the writing of "Going to Meet the Man."

Sometimes the things which make us truly remarkable may be obvious to everyone but ourselves.

Hemingway's three-cushion shot and White's obscure clarity could be seen as extensions of the “show, don’t tell” advice often given to fiction writers.

I was reading about the cost of doing business. What you should expect to pay.Rent.Labor.Inventory.How much for each. What’s reasonable.If you don't pay, you're done.I started thinking about the other

In the days when the duckbilled platypus ruled, it was common for the non-billed to pass themselves off as billed.Bill enhancement became big business. Even those with the least of means managed the i

People come into the store and pause."What was the name of that book…?"Someone told them. They meant to remember. Then it’s gone.It happens all the time. So I built a place to keep them.The ones you d

What do you think about in the shower?I used to think about how to explain essays.Most students didn’t want to hear it.One morning, I thought of a star.Stars have points. Essays have points.The stars

Elsie’s thin hand pressed the afghan into a tight space between her leg and the wheelchair arm. Her sister had crocheted it, this green and orange thing, her lifeline to the outside.“Ready to go back?