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Therese Walsh is the author of The Last Will of Moira Leahy , which is already racking up the raves. Says Booklist , “Walsh’s debut is a m...

A novelists, we struggle to put the truth on the page. We hope to tunnel so deeply into our characters' lives that what is on the page ...

Remember the books you were so passionate about when you were a teenager, the ones that spoke to you? Think they'd still be talking the...

I've been thinking a lot about how writers see the world. Recently on Facebook, a writer I really, really admire (the extraordinary Rhi...

When She Flew by Jennie Shortridge is the kind of dark, involving novel I happen to love. Based on true events concerning a Vietnam vet...

Laura Kasischke is one of my favorite authors. She has this eerie ability to meld the everyday with the unsettling, to unpeel her charact...

I 've long been addicted to Overbooked , a website for ravenous readers. (That describes me!) I read their advance fiction lists like a ...

One of the things I most love about teaching writing at UCLA is how the writing journey doesn't end when class does. Writers stay in to...

My favorite quote about writing is from John Irving. I've mentioned it before, and it basically says if you don't feel that you are...

We're not religious in my household. When my son was little, we celebrated everything: Christmas, Passover (complete with the Passover ...

I admit I tend to hoard. I have every single letter my friend Jo wrote to me while we were both in college, complete with her drawings all ...

PW, in a starred review called Lynne Griffin's Life Without Summer "a spellbinding tale of loss and hard-won redemption." As...

Recently, I read this piece about this author who received no tour, no publicity, no real support, so she took her act to the road, made a ...

T wo spots opened up in my advanced 20-week Novel Writing class at UCLA's Writers Program online. The class is really a blast, with lots...

I don’t remember how or when I met Beth Ann Bauman—one of my favorite writers and friends—, but I do remember seeing the New York Times pr...