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 ...

Why the latest literary trend favors short, punchy prose over epics. Novelists Anika Jade Levy and Jenny Offill weigh in.

In shaping my debut book’s complex characters, I found that what truly makes a house is about much more than picking the right wall color. When I was writing my debut novel, The Ones We Loved (out May ...

Nov. 1 marks the start of NaNoWriMo, an annual novel-writing challenge, and participants are scrambling to hit their daily 1,667 word count goal. But this year, the organization is facing controversy ...

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 ...

Writing the first book is time-consuming. So, you may wonder, why should people still write one—especially if a book is not required for tenure at their institution? Many people may advise you to just ...