Jonathan Franzen hands me a journal he’s found in a bin, a record of his day-to-day entries from the summer of 1998. We are in a storage annex next to his office, which is Spartan. There’s a small ...

When most people talk about a book changing their life, they’re talking about a book they read — a book that changed their perspective or way of thinking. But for many authors, writing a book can be ...

The American Writers Museum of Chicago will open an exhibit in November on the influence of religion and culture on creative ...

There’s a novel inside each of us, or so the adage goes, but sometimes it’s difficult to prise those ideas out from within and put them on paper. If you’ve got a glimmer of a premise swimming around ...

“The Titanic was sinking so we jumped in the lifeboat and paddled like hell.” Since its inception, which featured former host Mary Alice Monroe, the show has branched out with live appearances, an ...

What if writing a book no longer required months of painstaking effort, late nights, and endless rewrites? Imagine crafting an entire manuscript—complete with polished prose, cohesive structure, and ...

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Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Many people want to write a book, but few actually do it because of how difficult the ...

“According to the catechism of the Roman Catholic faith, into which Rowland had been born, six sins against the Holy Spirit ...

Novelist Ann Patchett energetically resists all efforts to identify autobiographical elements in her fiction, but she has never been averse to personal writing in general: In fact, as she explains in ...

With each, he wanted to write a novel that had as its mission a social critique — to say something important about the world ...