For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the ...

First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic’s Books section: What Stephen Miller gets wrong about human nature “First ...

After 35 years of teaching fiction writing, the prize-winning author shares her wisdom. First tip? Don’t write what you know… I don’t think it’s a bad thing to want to write a first sentence so ...

Fresno — There are no wasted words in the fictions of Venita Blackburn. Her stories are quick as lightning; her sentences, entire lifetimes flashing by. A clause might pierce a character’s frailties, ...

A columnist and feature writer for the Irish Independent, Tanya Sweeney makes her fiction debut this month with Esther Is Now ...