For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

In a provocative essay, a major publisher announced that its authors will no longer be required to solicit glowing reviews ...

A multitude of books have been published about writing and the writing process, and the works that comprise this genre are ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Books have a funny way of begetting more books. Readers of all stripes are compelled by ...

As a young writer herself — decades before she would be become a Pulitzer Prize finalist, longlisted for the National Book Award, and included in Best American Poetry compilations, among many ...

For “Your Island,” “Your Forest” and “Your Farm,” the author and illustrator radically simplified what was on the page.

The Ohio Writers’ Association’s newest anthology titled “Should This Book Be Banned?” releases on Feb. 16 featuring 30 stories and poems written by “a kaleidoscope of perspectives ...

Alvitre, a Tongva/Scots-Gaelic comic book artist, has illustrated children’s books by Indigenous authors Traci Sorrell and ...

Strolling through Dymocks with a friend recently, I spied a book with a rapturous blurb from ... hope that Shakespeare would one day blurb him. Writers can do crazy things in quest of a blurb.

Gates said he enjoyed the process of writing the book, even if he had to revisit some challenging times in his life, such as the death of his friend Kent at a young age or the tumultuous ...

“Syme’s Letter Writer” is her first book. It is neither a history of letter-writing nor a tribute to the form’s luminaries but an opinionated volume, its quirkiness accentuated by ...

A new ecosystem of publishers, bookstores, literary magazines and festivals is promoting African writers and changing the stories told about the region. By Abdi Latif Dahir Abdi Latif Dahir ...