In today’s episode, two authors tackle everyday experience through short-form writing. First, The Irish Goodbye is a ...

Richard Russo, whose “Fool” trilogy is beloved for the characters he created to populate a fictional upstate New York town, freely admits he’s always pulled from his real life to write his novels. “I ...

Anne Fadiman's "Frog and Other Essays" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is a modest book -- 192 pages, seven essays, a slim spine ...

Essay collections appear infrequently on the lists of most popular nonfiction — memoirs and historical narratives dominate conversations about the genre. Those forms of nonfiction are wonderful in ...

Tell people you read and write for a living, and they picture a ghostly creature, an idea only incidentally appended to a body. What they often fail to understand is that the life of the mind is also ...

College students face a common enemy. The blank page. The blinking cursor. Writing essays can feel like torture. Professors want polished academic writing. But who actually practices that in real life ...