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Notoriously reluctant to give advice, the author offered his views, and meticulous edits, to a lifelong friend: Roger Payne, the marine biologist who introduced the world to whale song. By [...]

The author of ''Gothikana'' isn't going to reveal much. But she will share a useful tip for writing and life. ''I had a stalker when I was in college, so [...]

I am proud to say that my latest novel, One Love, is my queerest yet. And it includes my first-ever gay sex scene--the first gay sex scene a publisher has [...]

MARC MILLON Author 'Italy in a Wineglass carne from an idea that has been germinating in my mind for more than 30 years. When researching and writing an earlier book, [...]

How a language barrier can both limit and liberate. My mother, who can't read and write, is one of my literary influences. I was 3 or 4 when she left [...]

It's easier than ever to find someone to comment on your work. But whether you participate in an online critique group, meet up in person, post excerpts on Wattpad, or [...]

Before she put pen to paper -- or fingers to keyboard -- this fantasy novelist spent a long time getting to know her protagonist. When she was growing up, Tracy [...]

Ashley Bryan's Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace won the 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor [...]

It took six years for actress Lisa Foiles to see her newly-released debut novel, Ash Ridley and the Phoenix in print, but the story about a young girl and a [...]

My body felt weathered. My skin and lymphatic system screamed with signs of inflammation. I'd been feeling an impossible tightness in my neck and shoulders and explosive pressure in my [...]

Fictional characters, too, are saddled with college loans, and struggling to keep the story of their lives moving forward. In Emily St. John Mandel's novel ''The Glass Hotel'' (2020), a [...]

Lars Kepler, the pen name of a husband-and-wife crime fiction-writing team, is Sweden's best-selling author. Here, they recommend books that take readers beyond fictitious murders to the soul of the [...]

The former journalist, author of 25 spy thrillers and a stalwart on the best-seller list, opens up about his writerly quirks. Daniel Silva begins a phone interview with an apology [...]

HERE COMES THE SCRIBE There was the bride who instructed a makeup artist to make her bridesmaids look like ''little piggies'' so they wouldn't steal the spotlight. There was the [...]

Children's author Jose Potter spins stories so captivating, creates characters so memorable, and infuses his positive messages so subtly that when readers reach the end of one of his books, [...]

SMELLS LIKE A SMASH HIT How does a musician become a best-selling author? For Dave Grohl -- frontman of the Foo Fighters, formerly of Nirvana -- the evolution started in [...]

''The freedom to write'': PEN America's always resonant motto has a special resonance for Black authors, because for so many of them, that freedom was one they fought hard for. [...]

SEPT. 5, 1965 Years ago I was working in Schenectady for General Electric, completely surrounded by machines and ideas for machines, so I wrote a novel about people and machines, [...]

THE SECOND SHELF by Meg Wolitzer | Essay first published March 30, 2012 If ''The Marriage Plot,'' by Jeffrey Eugenides, had been written by a woman yet still had the [...]

You might think that celebrated adult authors writing for kids is a new trend. It isn't. For a skeptic who never quite finished the first paragraph of ''Tender Buttons'' it [...]

O.G. INFLUENCERS We all know how illustrations from iconic picture books can imprint themselves on our imaginations with the indelibility of an important memory. Close your eyes and you might [...]

GREEN LIGHT ''I've battled despair a lot in my life,'' said John Green, whose first book for adults, ''The Anthropocene Reviewed,'' has been on the hardcover nonfiction list for three [...]

In an interview in 2012, Hilary Mantel, the author of the ''Wolf Hall'' trilogy, was asked if she felt any trepidation writing about the Tudors. ''Much historical fiction that centers [...]

PAY IT FORWARD Aside from lighthouse tending, writing may be the most solitary profession. You can't turn to a colleague with a gripe or a silly question; you work alone. [...]

SUNNY SIDE UP Wherever she goes, Sunny Hostin leaves stacks of books in her wake. In a phone interview, the co-host of ''The View'' described her voracious approach: ''I read [...]

I started writing about loneliness by accident. It seems too simple to say I wrote about loneliness because I was often lonely, although I was. It was 2016, during an [...]

WOMAN'S BEST FRIENDS As a longtime correspondent for CBS, Martha Teichner has covered some of the world's biggest news events, including the Persian Gulf war, the election of Nelson Mandela [...]

A BOOK IN THE OVEN If you are a new parent with a few hours of child care on your hands, you may be inclined to sneak in a nap, [...]

SELLER'S MARKET In the course of a 30-minute phone interview, Mateo Askaripour dropped my name -- actually, my nickname -- six times: ''Liz, I don't have an M.F.A.'' and ''To [...]

HOMEBODY A few years ago, Fredrik Backman was looking for a new apartment in Stockholm when inspiration hit during an open house. ''We'd seen maybe nine apartments and I was [...]

IN BRIEF When Pam Jenoff introduces herself to a new group of students at Rutgers Law School, she doesn't usually talk about what she's up to outside the classroom. But [...]

In his 1989 book, 'Prison Literature in America: The Victim as Criminal and Artist,' H. Bruce Franklin offers a decade-by-decade review of memoirs, novels, poetry and essays by incarcerated Americans. [...]

In 1988, Katherine Paterson wrote in the Book Review that children need not only the happily-ever-after of fairy tales, but also ''proper endings'' in which ''hope is a yearning, rooted [...]

MAYORAL FEAT In April, while the average stir-crazy citizen was binge-watching ''Tiger King,'' Pete Buttigieg took a different tack: He started writing a book. First, the former presidential candidate and [...]

It has been nearly 20 years since the night in a newspaper office in Delhi when I came across a copy of a fax V. S. Naipaul had sent in [...]

IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH ''My soul is 17,'' says Kiera Cass, whose latest novel, ''The Betrothed,'' is No. 1 on the young adult hardcover list. ''I feel like if [...]

EX LIBRIS For many authors, especially those who are parents of small children, a book tour is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Not only does [...]

LONE STAR ''I'm 52 and this is my first novel,'' says Elizabeth Wetmore, the author of ''Valentine,'' which is now at No. 10 on the hardcover fiction list. She worked [...]

DYNAMIC DUO Sarah Pekkanen, an author, and Greer Hendricks, an editor, worked together on seven books before they decided to write one as a team. This week, their third thriller, [...]

YOURS SINCERELY To hear Ann Napolitano talk -- at a pre-publication lunch, at an event to celebrate the relaunch of Dial Press, on the ''Today'' show -- is to know [...]