For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the imagined world her characters inhabit.

Every January, a familiar thought creeps into the minds of many: This is the year I finally write the novel. If you’ve ever tried to follow through on that promise and thought about using AI to ...

What if writing a book no longer required months of painstaking effort, late nights, and endless rewrites? Imagine crafting an entire manuscript—complete with polished prose, cohesive structure, and ...

January is traditionally a month for starting projects, trying new things, and working to break bad habits — particularly anything that gets in the way of self-improvement or productivity. Polygon ...

My forthcoming novel, Three Days Grace, is not a business book. It’s a work of fiction about urgency, trauma and moral choice ...

Over the years, I’ve published a couple of series supporting teachers who were interested in writing education books. I’ve written or edited 13 education-related books. Now that I’ve retired, I’m ...

Jonathan Franzen hands me a journal he’s found in a bin, a record of his day-to-day entries from the summer of 1998. We are in a storage annex next to his office, which is Spartan. There’s a small ...