Arguably one of the most challenging genres to write is humor. When it works, it works beautifully. But when the jokes fall ...

Christina Applegate will tell the story of her life and career in a new memoir.

Fanny Howe, the author of dozens of poetry collections and novels, has died at 84, the New York Times reports. Howe grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was educated at Stanford University. Her ...

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Podcasting is an enormous industry, reportedly bringing in over $7 billion of revenue in 2024. Podcasts are not only ...

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DINNER WITH KING TUT HOW ROGUE ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE RECREATING THE SIGHTS, SOUNDS, SMELLS, AND TASTES OF LOST CIVILIZATIONS by Sam Kean ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 8, 2025 A fast-paced, vividly written tale ...

When you sit down to write a story, sometimes the hardest part can be just getting started. After all, the beginning of a tale ...

Three women deal very differently with vampirism in Schwab’s era-spanning follow-up to The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (2020).

Hai, the hero of Vuong’s ambitious second novel—following On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019)—is a 19-year-old college dropout and painkiller addict prepared to kill himself by leaping off a bridge ...

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A maritime bookend of sorts to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, British journalist Elmhirst’s narrative turns on two 1960s-era British dreamers who decided to pitch it all in and sail from grim, gray ...