It's Christmas: Don't Get an MFA -- Write a Story, Win a Prize
Plenty of writers proceed without courses, without MFAs. They read voraciously, and learn about writing from reading, the way we learned to write before there were courses in it.
Plenty of writers proceed without courses, without MFAs. They read voraciously, and learn about writing from reading, the way we learned to write before there were courses in it.
Laurence Hughes | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books
Instead of focusing on books that were published this year, how about focusing on years that have been published as books?
The New York Times | MATTHEW SALTMARSH | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books
A French court ruled Friday that Google was guilty of infringing copyrights by digitizing books and putting extracts online without authorization, dea...
mashable.com | Brenna Ehrlich | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books
Ever since roughly 2005, publishers have been looking toward the Internet in order to find new fodder for the printed page, and this year, those liter...
Andy Selsberg | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books
Curating "Dear Old Love", a website and now book of short, anonymous notes to old loves, has provided me with an email box full of insight into the ways relationships pull apart.
Feministing | Courtney Martin | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books
As they say, it's always "too many books, too little time." But the holiday season is a time when a) you often get to slow down and actually devour a ...
Steven Solomon | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books
As the throngs at Copenhagen pack their bags and disperse from the historic summit back to all corners of the globe, a lone young Ohio woman, Katie Spotz, 24, is getting set to start out on a solitary, sea level voyage.
Dirk Mathison | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books
It's not easy messing around in the fictional sandbox of a famous director, especially one as exacting as James Cameron.
Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books
There's no good time to go through a break up and the holidays are just about the worst. The last thing you want to do is rub salt into a wound by rea...
Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) announced today in a press release that overall book sales were up in October. The increase is small -- 1...
abcnews.com | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books
Why do men cheat? How do you know? Steve Harvey, author of "Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man", tells all. You can read an excerpt from "Act Like a ...
The Guardian | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books
While people are busy ranking the hit books of the last 10 years, many a publishing insider is quietly mourning a volume that unaccountably never made...
Posted 12.17.2009 | Books
Stephen King was on the Colbert Report last night for the feature "Better Know a Stephen" and gave Colbert spooky visions of double Stephens. They tal...
Phil Villarreal | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books
If your New Year's resolution is to be more cheap, petty and evil, I have some tips for you.
Alun Anderson | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books
Climate change may seem as if it is a worry just for the people who want to "save the planet" but really it is about saving our current standard of living. And once you get the Arctic angry it will go for a long, slow revenge.
Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books
2009 has been a fantastic year for kids' picture books, and parents, you'll love them as much as your children do. There's something for everyone: fro...
Steve Haber | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books
In a world of social networks, video games and mobile handsets that do everything imaginable, Americans have maintained their interest in reading.
Jason Pinter | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books
I have no doubt that some people buy books based on their discovery of an author online. But I also believe that what helps can also hurt if not done in moderation.
Penny C. Sansevieri | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books
One of the biggest mistakes authors make is selling their book. Remember it's not about the book; it's about what the book can do for the reader.
AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The fierce debate over health care hasn't led to a new law yet, but it's produced some of this year's top quotes, according t...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 12.16.2009 | Impact
There are some truths about women's health that may now seem self-evident, but perhaps would not be so obvious if it were not for the ideas espoused, starting so long ago, by "Our Bodies, Ourselves."
Karen Stabiner | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books
The story is such a familiar, valiant mess, or better, a sprawling but disciplined rendering of a mess; 661 pages, and I am starting to regret that it will end.
AP | MAE ANDERSON | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books
NEW YORK — Book seller Borders Group Inc. is entering the electronic book market, partnering with a Canadian digital book company to sell e-book...
Reuters | Kevin Plumberg | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books
After predicting in his 2003 book "The Dollar Crisis" that the U.S. property bubble would trigger a global recession, Duncan's new book argues that go...
The New York Times | MARGALIT FOX | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books
Milorad Pavic, an internationally prominent Serbian writer whose novels upended the traditional relationship between reader and text, taking the form ...
Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books