Review: The Business of Being a Writer, by Jane Friedman

You’ve finished your first draft and you’re wondering, Is it any good? To evaluate your work and figure out what you want to change, you...

4/14/2022 Memoir is an exploding category. More and more, people want to read real-life stories that bear witness to the poignancy, pain,...

4/23/2020 The first person “I” is a natural point of view for memoir and personal essays. But writers take a risk in using “I” – the risk...

1/23/2020 It’s harder than it looks to write dialogue that sounds natural. Writers can't just transcribe speech, with all its ums and...

There is a glut of books on the market about how to write fiction, but only a handful on editing fiction. There are a gazillion books on...

Copy editors. Aren’t they pinched-nosed mousy types with bifocals and buttoned-up blouses? Carol Fisher Saller, author of The Subversive...

Brothers and scholars Steven Cahn and Victor Cahn attempt something new in Polishing Your Prose: How to Turn First Drafts into Finished...

Should it be “short, balding man” or “short balding man”? “Bad hair day” or “bad-hair day”? Mary Norris, a copy editor at The New Yorker...

​What’s not to like about What Editors Do? This collection of essays traces the role of book editors from acquisition to publication and...