Another chapter is composed of Vara’s Amazon reviews ... children’s books, and so on. It also won’t be that surprising if people enjoy them; people enjoy formulaic writing all the time.

How to Write One Song is an okay book by a great songwriter. Unlike the carefully crafted lyrics of Tweedy’s songs for his band Wilco, the prose in How to Write One Song often feels more like a daily ...

Steve Martin Writes the Written Word” is a collection of the comedian's written works over the decades. The' Andrew DeMillo ...

Cold comfort. But Marsh is smart enough to know that no one who wants to write is going to be discouraged by cautionary tales or dismal book sales statistics. Nor should they be. Because ...

This cover image released by Scribner shows "Flesh" by David Szalay. (Scribner via AP) ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. To discuss means to talk or write about a subject in detail. It's good to be able to discuss stories and books with ...

That was your human correspondent, writing on a laptop in a drafty apartment ... he carefully nurtures his readers' discomfort. The Book Review Podcast: Each week, top authors and critics talk ...

Sonia Faleiro’s new book How I Write attempts to extract this very ... But she fixates on one absence: The New York Times review that never came. “Publishing a book is like birthing a child ...

As she eventually acknowledges, McCracken, the author of this book but not, for the most part, its narrator, has a brother, a husband (writer Edward Carey), and two children. She prefers writing ...