One summer day in 2015, I fell in love twice. I was not usually fickle, but always susceptible to paintings of the southwestern Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

At least 7,370 unique titles were removed from public schools across the U.S. in the last academic year, according to the new report, as administrators in states such as Texas and Florida increasingly...

On October 10th, 1861, the editors of The Atlantic Monthly sent an impersonal rejection letter to Walt Whitman. It read: Dear Sir:—We beg to inclose to your address, in two envelopes, the three poe…

At People of Publishing,the business of being a literary agent is changing along with its ethical boundaries, leading agents to question how to maintain integrity and a sustainable revenue stream.

If you read last month’s newsletter, then you know how much I wanted to go to Scotland.

Across Greater Philadelphia, bookstores are back. Sellers say screen fatigue, a hunger for community, and a desire to support local businesses are fueling the surge.

Debates about the term and its definition date to the late 1800s but are gaining urgency in some Jewish spaces.

Free from the traditional New York publishing bubble, Transit Books and Unnamed Press are building creative, distinct — and flourishing — literary houses on the West Coast.

Prose, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features. In these 12 microfictions and flash stories, Matthew Jakubowski traces a terrain of otherworldly-ness populated by lost ghosts, haunted lovers, immo...

Mothers, daughters, grandmothers and 'Pemi Aguda's One Leg on Earth

When I walk into a room full of writers, I’m often struck by the sense that I don’t belong. I’m an immigrant, first-generation to college; my father was a welder. Swearing was the third language we…

My Sylvia Plath fandom dates back to the early nineties, when I was in my late teens and randomly pulled The Bell Jar off the shelf at my local library in suburban Salt Lake City. I had never heard…

I work in the Art Department at HarperCollins, where I have a front-row seat to the conversations that shape how books appear in the world. What kind of cover art reads as “literary” versus “commer…

What looked like political theater is becoming a genuine threat to the freedom to read.

At The Common, we’re primarily interested in publishing reviews of books that feature a strong sense of place and have been released by a small, independent press within the…

In a National Labor Relations Board election, 89% of 134 eligible employees across the publisher’s divisions, including some warehouse workers, voted to join the Chicago NewsGuild and will soon begin ...

YouTube video by Mike Consol

YouTube video by Mike Consol

People are natural storytellers—so why are plot and pace so hard to figure out? In one session, we’ll break down the fundamentals of character and conflict to discover tools for creating powerful and ...

A Writing Tip by Nathaniel Popkin STAY IN THE NOW My editor and dear friend Ann de Forest knows my writing better than I do—especially when I’m being imprecise, obtuse, or long-winded. She straightens...

A contract accepted under duress is typically considered voidable. My wife Helen is a lawyer, so she would understand this better than anyone, and yet when she convinced me to say yes to a puppy af…