One of my nerdy little hobbies is collecting quotations from the famous and not-so-famous about good writing. After enduring many slings and arrows of outrageous writing misfortune, I’ve learned not ...

Los Angeles has long been a kind of dreamscape, the city of the silver screen, on the edge of a great ocean, that draws in people from all over the world, despite the looming threats of being shaken ...

One of Africa’s most celebrated authors Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has passed away. The Kenyan writer and academic was 87 years old. Having published his first novel – Weep Not Child – in 1964, Ngũgĩ pursued a ...

A new play about Roald Dahl shows the now-controversial children’s writer in his flawed, complicated reality. There’s a lot to be said for not knowing much about your favorite writers’ actual lives.

Writer and historian David McCullough sits in the shade of a tree behind his Martha’s Vineyard home in West Tisbury, Mass., May 12, 2001, near the small shed-size structure where McCullough likes to ...

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the wildfires in Los Angeles, and the words of writers who were drawn to the city. Opinion: Great writers on Los Angeles Los Angeles has long been a kind of dreamscape, ...