Father Knows Best: What’s your advice for new writers? ... Top view of the workplace of a writer. Martin Elfert . February 19, 2014 ...

The National Book Award-winning author has a new novel called Deacon King Kong. It's set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969. "Time and place is really crucial to good storytelling," he says.

Here are his top 10 tips for new writers: 1. Write in a series . It’s easier to market a series. Readers will come back again and again for characters that they love.

“1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused and Productive All Year Round,” by Jami Attenberg. (Simon & Schuster) CHICAGO — Writing this sentence was hard. There were so ...

This year's graduations for the class of 2020 will be with a little less pomp and circumstance, a little less social celebration in the face of coronavirus and the cautions around big gatherings ...

Punk rock poetess--and, now, memoirist--Patti Smith stopped by the PEN World Voices literary festival in New York City this weekend for a chat with writer Jonathan Lethem (Chronic City).The two ...

Guest Column: A Therapist Shares Mental Health Tips for Striking Writers. Alan Dybner, who was a strike captain during the 2007-2008 strike and is now a marriage and family therapist, says that ...