Forty years ago in October 1986 I attended my first Frankfurt Book Fair. On the first day of meetings my friend and colleague Gary Fisketjon and I were introduced to Heinrich Maria Ledig Rowohlt, an elegant, charismatic 78-year-old German publisher

Extra, extra. You’ve seen the headlines. Men—particularly straight men—have stopped reading fiction. This year saw the rise and fall of the performative lit-bro. And though history, crime, and self-help books still persuade a certain type, the most recent NEA survey found

Quando Whitney Houston apareceu no The Arsenio Hall Show nas primeiras semanas de 1991, a outra convidada de Arsenio foi Roseanne Barr, que cantou notoriamente “The Star-Spangled Banner” em um jogo do San Diego Padres no ano anterior. O anfitrião perguntou a Barr se

Em setembro de 1942, o bibliotecário-chefe do Exército, Ray Trautman, estava na etapa final de uma turnê mundial pelas instalações dos EUA quando chegou à Austrália. Aqui, sua missão era dupla: tirar a temperatura das necessidades de leitura neste cantinho

A terra natal de Hannah Arendt era povoada de amigos, a maioria deles homens – pelo menos é isso que a sua correspondência publicada nos leva a acreditar. As cartas publicadas entre Arendt e seus amigos incluem livros com Martin Heidegger Karl Jaspers Heinrich Blücher

Olá de novo! Bem-vindo de volta ao melhor (e mais bêbado) canto da internet, lar da querida e ousada sensação conhecida como Am I the Literary Asshole? Se você é um leitor iniciante, somos uma coluna de conselhos bimestral que aborda

Hoje, a Academia Sueca atribuiu o Prémio Nobel da Literatura de 2026 à autora canadiana Anne Carson, pela “sua obra ousada e inventiva que, em diálogo lúdico com a tradição clássica, criou novas formas para a literatura contemporânea”. Permanente da Academia

Geralmente não entendemos a literatura como um diálogo. Normalmente, quando os profissionais editoriais pensam nos leitores, eles pensam que precisam incentivá-los a comprar o livro para que possam ter horas de entretenimento cultural agradável ou enriquecedor. O nome do autor

Atingi a maioridade como escritor lendo The Way to Rainy Mountain, House Made of Dawn e Angle of Geese, de N. Scott Momaday (seu criativo livro de memórias de não-ficção, romance e coleção de poemas). Momaday, como Louise Erdrich, Leslie Silko, Joy

Award-winning fiction writer T. Geronimo Johnson joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about his new novel, The Occidental Book of the Dead. He discusses how the book addresses white supremacy and the United States’ deep-seated and racist

Tonight, at a ceremony in New York City, Kirkus Reviews announced the winners of the 13th annual Kirkus Prize, which awards $50,000 to “books of exceptional merit” in three categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers’ Literature. The winners were chosen

In a new People Interview, Michael Douglas gets real about writing about his past relationships in his new memoir, One Helluva Ride, including the one where there were "acts of indiscretion" on both their parts.

How to build a reading habit when you hate reading: diagnose if your problem is selection or friction, pick books by mood, not should-read lists, engineer quick wins with short books, give yourself permission to quit, use audiobooks as a bridge, and track daily streaks instead of yearly counts.

Photographing notes is not digitising them. This guide shows how to use your phone's built-in text recognition to turn handwriting into searchable, editable text on iPhone and Android, with no extra app and no upload.

Flash fiction is not a shortened long story. It is a different form built on one character, one problem, and one moment. This guide covers structure, titles, endings, and the editing process that makes a 500-word story work.

Natural dialogue is not a transcript of real speech — it is real speech edited for character, tension, and subtext. These techniques will help your characters sound like people instead of mouthpieces.

A clear structure keeps a true story moving. This guide shows a simple framework for shaping scenes, reflection, and research into an essay that holds together.

Showing means giving readers evidence instead of labels. These five short exercises train you to replace emotion words with action, detail, and dialogue.

A reading journal only helps if you still use it in March. This guide sets up a low-effort system for tracking books, quotes, and ideas worth returning to.

A memoir opening must earn the reader's attention in the first page. This guide shows how to choose a scene, enter it late, and set up the question the book answers.

Character voice is more than accent or slang. This guide shows how sentence length, vocabulary, and what a character notices can make a voice unmistakable.

Revision feels overwhelming when you try to fix everything at once. This guide breaks it into passes: structure, scenes, sentences, and a final read-aloud check.

Sensory detail works when it reveals character or changes a scene. This guide shows how to choose details that mean something instead of listing all five senses.