As its title, 'Life and Art' suggests, and with humor and intelligence, the essays span culture, personal history, politics ...

Richard Russo, whose “Fool” trilogy is beloved for the characters he created to populate a fictional upstate New York town, ...

She has all of her books and notes and annotated sonnets ready at hand. But the mind and body do not obey. By the end of the day—the novel takes place in a single period of waking to bedtime—the essay ...

The most influential crowdsourcing project happened long before Wikipedia Other essays in this companionable book include an appreciation of the poet John Ashbery; reminiscences of Krystal’s ...

Some of the highlights: Holbrook Jackson’s essay about Books Bound in Human Skin, which tells of a Russian poet who had lost a leg in a hunting accident, and used the discarded skin to bind a ...

This year, One Book has selected three Honorable Mentions and one Winner of the $500 prize for the Essay Contest. Thank you to all who submitted! We received 27 submissions in total this year. One ...

Right now, we're focusing on writing paragraphs and writing essays, so students know that they have to write more than just one sentence, and they use the information from the books, as far as how ...

But I'm as entitled as anyone else to share my opinions. RASCOE: And let's dig into some of the essays in the book. One of the essays that stood out to me and also to one of our producers was the ...

Most of the women who were her “best writing teachers,” as she explains in the first essay in the book, “never went to school and never learned to read and write, but they carried stories li ...