By Ronnie BlairOn my left knee is a faint scar, put there nearly 60 years ago by Adam West – sort of. He was responsible indirectly anyway.Anyone who was around in the 1960s remembers the extraordinar...

By Ronnie Blair The em dash would seem to be an innocent enough punctuation mark, doing its job without asking anything in return and never displaying jealousy of the comma or the period, whose servic...

By Ethan Gilsdorf “I’m not quite seeing this,” a student might say in one of my workshops, trying to grasp a vague or murky moment in a memoir. “That’s not entirely clear,” another might comm…

By Dinty W. Moore Though much of our focus on the Brevity Blog is the art of memoir writing, the genre we call creative or literary nonfiction is far wider in scope, and it would be a shame for wri…

Once lost, this 8-minute, very damaged, but very delightful silent version of Alice in Wonderland was restored several years ago by the British Film Institute. It is the first film adaptation of the 1...

By Amanda Le Rougetel “Who is your reader?” I ask this question in two different writing classes and get two different reactions. The first class receives my question with puzzled looks and silence…

The papers connected to author A.A. Milne—including original drafts, illustrations, letters, poems and corrected proofs—sold at auction for more than $118,000

By Beverley Stevens I have at last found a book—actually two books—that are close to what I envisage for the memoir I’m working on. Finding these models feels like a validation and fuels my not-so-…

If an inner voice criticizes your creativity, consider addressing the judgy elephant in the room. To whom does that voice belong?

His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and shaped the postwar years.