Discretion, silences and underachievement marked Joan Lindsay’s life and work – despite writing an Australian classic. A new biography investigates her many mysteries.

Literary scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin discusses how Black yearning keeps surviving in the face of racist violence.

It’s a mixed bag of good reading today, with collections from experienced Minnesota poets plus a debut from a ...

Dean Nelson reflects on three decades of interviews with America’s bestselling authors at his Writer’s Symposium by the Sea ...

The 300-year-old letter shows how Newton wasn't just a brilliant scientist, but also an avid seeker of life's philosophy and God's truth.

I wrote a forty-to-fifty-page treatment, which no one ever saw, of how the opera would unfold. And then I got that down to fifteen pages, which the composer saw, and then ten pages, which the ...

Author Rebe Huntman compares the process of building to writing when it comes to piecing together a memoir. Includes an incomplete list of materials to try as you build your memoir.

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A  book by UB scholar Collie Fulford on the writing lives of adult learners offers a look into the value they bring to an age ...

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