Few teenagers would want the world to read their poems. At 13, Charlotte Brontë collected her verse in a humble anthology that already hinted at her...
In 1981, Nettie Jones was shopping her debut novel, “Fish Tales,” a shocking story about a married woman’s booze- and drug-fueled sexual escapades. Full of violence,...
The elusive novelist Thomas Pynchon will publish a new book this fall, his first in more than a decade. The novel, “Shadow Ticket,” is due out...
No matter how you slice it, Liz Moore has arrived. This month, an adaptation of her blockbuster novel “Long Bright River” started streaming on Peacock. And...
L.J. Smith, an author of young adult novels best known for “The Vampire Diaries” series, which became a hit television drama, and for repossessing her characters...
Since her nomination to the Supreme Court, Justice Amy Coney Barrett has faced scrutiny from all sides. She weathered a swift and strong backlash from former...
Hong Kong is a difficult place to run an independent bookshop. Rents are high and space is limited, but navigating the law has also become harder...
Herman Graf, a major and intrepid figure in independent publishing who sold copies of Henry Miller’s novel “Tropic of Cancer” to bookstores after it was embroiled...
Felice Picano, who in the 1970s and ’80s helped usher in a golden age of gay literature as the author of groundbreaking novels and memoirs and...
Editorial processes, Dooley said, are “practically unique for each composer,” but they share a quality of trust between composer and editor. With Harrison Birtwistle, whom Cox...