New Year's Eve sparkles with promise as the clock strikes 12 at midnight, and suddenly, the slate feels clean. It's the ...

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Contrary to our romanticized notions, writers don’t just sit around all day, drink coffee and Scotch, and wait for inspiration to strike. Like any other job, they have to be disciplined and productive ...

Nearly 47 years ago, in July 1970, The Atlantic published “Let Us Now Appraise Famous Writers”—a devastating, and at times wickedly funny, takedown of a huge mail-order correspondence school called ...

IOWA CITY, Ia. — Claire Lombardo enters an upstairs classroom of an old house on the banks of the Iowa River on the University of Iowa campus and plops down brownies and a copy of her 48-page short ...

It’s the perfect time of year to get cozy with a good book. Seriously, can you even call it a holiday if you never get the luxury of a few hours (or more!) on the sofa with a completely absorbing page ...

Colm Tóibín’s preoccupation with blood ties is evident in the titles of his fiction (“Mothers and Sons,” “The Empty Family”) and literary criticism (he called a 2012 volume of essays “New Ways to Kill ...