Lingering touches and stolen glances, jaw-dropping revelations and long-awaited reunions—the pleasures of romance novels abound. Yet for so long, one of the most popular (and lucrative) genres in ...

Now that my new memoir is out in the world, I’ve been binging craft books in an attempt to teach myself how I might write a novel. It’s frequently proven to be little more than an elaborate way to ...

The mainstream publishing industry is intimidating. How does a writer break in? Follow Jessamine Chan’s “The School for Good Mothers” through the roller coaster of its creation. Credit...Kathleen Fu ...

Most screenplays use some form of a plot device. But a bad plot device can ruin an otherwise acceptable screenplay, so screenwriters must be careful to craft storytelling devices in a way that ...

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 ...

Ahead of 'The Plot's release, Hanff Korelitz spoke with THR about writing a new novel in the middle of the pandemic, how it sparks a conversation about writers and releasing a novel following a hit ...

Literary novelists are struggling with whether, and how, to incorporate Covid into their fiction. By Alexandra Alter Twelve years ago, Sigrid Nunez published “Salvation City,” a novel about a boy ...

There are three different movies based on the novel, I Am Legend, but which one is the closest? Well, you're about to find out. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

NPR's David Folkenflik talks with British author Nathan Newman about their novel, "How to Leave The House." It covers a day-in-the life of a young adult who's finally moving out of his mom's house. In ...

Toward the end of “Birnam Wood” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), the latest novel from the New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton, Rosie Demarney, an otherwise minor character, gets a moment in the spotlight.