someone writing in a notebook someone writing in a notebook Aspiring authors, meet your new best friends: Liz Morrow and Ariel Curry. These seasoned pros provide an engaging and effective resource that includes a practical roadmap for planning, writing, and publishing your book, plus insider tips on capturing the attention of agents and publishers—even without […]
Hello, patrons of the drunken arts! It’s your host, Kristen Arnett, back with another stunning installment of Am I the Literary Asshole? , a bimonthly advice column that’s so drenched in liquor it might as well be a rum baba. Coconut cake! Chocolate torte! Crème brulee! I’ve got sweets on the brain, which naturally translates […]
I just read this time management book, 4,000 weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. The book begins with the stark fact that we only have 4000 weeks to live, if we’re lucky. That’s not a lot of time, especially for a woman. Let’s face it, we have a lot more to do, unless […]
Credit…Rebecca Clarke By the Book Among her favorites: books by Pat Barker and Marguerite Yourcenar. Her own latest work of historical nonfiction is “Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation.” Credit…Rebecca Clarke What books are on your night stand? Jan Morris’ s “Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere.” It’s about […]
“I didn’t ever feel before I had the courage to say that, and it was something that I knew for decades,” Morris tells PEOPLE of of coming out as bisexual Ashley Osborn Maren Morris Maren Morris is opening up about the art of self discovery. In this week’s issue of PEOPLE, the music superstar reveals […]
These six unrelenting and effervescent titles inspired the writer as she worked on her debut novel ‘Paradise Logic’ “This is my novel, it’s about a girl named Reality.” Writer Sophie Kemp smiles into a microphone at KGB bar wearing a Vaquera slip dress with white lace panties sewn onto the outside. She’s electric, forever in […]
Photo by Getty Images on Unsplash Helen Phillips’s new novel, Hum , takes place in a world populated by intelligent robots called “hums.” In this work of speculative fiction, Philips explores a near future stemming out of our world’s obsession with technology and artificial intelligence. At the same time, though, this is a story about […]
LIZA Minnelli is setting the record straight. The Oscar winner announced her new, explosive memoir will be released next year, adding a “series of unfortunate events” determined her decision to write the book. Sign up for the Entertainment and TV newsletter Your info will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy Lady Gaga, left, […]
I first became infatuated with Luigi da Porto, a warrior-poet from 15th century Italy in 2001, when I went to live in Verona. I’d just completed my Creative Writing masters at UEA, and, young and low on life-experience, was on the hunt for a story. It was not the most thought-through plan. I ended up […]
“I didn’t ever feel before I had the courage to say that, and it was something that I knew for decades,” Morris tells PEOPLE of of coming out as bisexual Maren Morris. Photo: Ashley Osborn Maren Morris is opening up about the art of self discovery. In this week’s issue of PEOPLE, the music superstar […]
