Robinson Crusoe Author Daniel Defoe: Bankrupt, Jailed, and Still the Most Important Writer of His Century
The fact that Daniel Defoe was almost sixty years old when he published Robinson Crusoe is somewhat noteworthy. By that […]
These Books Didn’t Just Tell History – They Made You Feel It in Your Bones
Fiction is the only way to arrive at a certain kind of knowledge. Not because nonfiction is false, but rather
The Publishing Secrets Every Reader Deserves to Know – And Authors Are Too Afraid to Say
There’s a moment every writer recognizes — sitting with a finished manuscript, or something close to it, and realizing they
The Minneapolis Detective Who Made Readers Forget Their Better Judgment
There’s a particular kind of reader who discovers John Sandford’s novels the way most people stumble into a long-running television
Cloudstreet and the Art of Writing a Place So Vividly It Becomes a Character
There’s a particular kind of literary experience that sneaks up on you. Not the kind where a novel announces its
The Hidden Resources Most Library Users Never Discover
Paying for something you already had causes a certain kind of annoyance. Most people, if pressed, would describe a library
How Selling a Book Became an Entirely Different Game – And Most Authors Aren’t Winning
There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that settles over debut authors about six weeks after their book goes live. The
Clare Leslie Hall Novel Proves That First Love Never Really Dies – It Just Waits
There’s a particular kind of novel that sneaks up on you. You think you know what it is — a
The Recession Novel: How Fear of the Economy Becomes Fiction That Actually Matters
Only when people are afraid do certain types of novels get written. The quieter kind, where the source of fear