Comedy coach Chris Head breaks down some stand-up techniques you can use in your comedy, based on examples found in a festive ...

Award-winning non-fiction writer, "The New Yorker" staffer, and dog owner Susan Orlean talks about her creation process, her new memoir "Joy Ride," and what it is like to be portrayed as a murderous ...

Stan Lee rewrote the rules of what heroism could look like. For decades, his pen stitched together flawed characters with cosmic destinies, grounded in everyday problems and elevated by snappy ...

Per Henningsgaard is affiliated with Writing WA, which is a state-based writers' centre mentioned in the final paragraph of this article. I'm the Chair of the Board of Management, which is volunteer ...

"No plan" could be a title to a Reacher novel. Like Elmore Leonard, the brothers said they would just start writing, but it's not the same as winging it or making things up as they go along. It's a ...

Russ Jarvis eyes Israel’s Sea of Galilee in 2016. Editor’s note: This piece first appeared in PrimeTime, the Daily Reporter’s quarterly magazine for active seniors. You can find the whole magazine ...

Joe Hill doesn’t have to go very far to find the scariest book ever. Just up a rung on his family tree. “That's the gold standard when it comes to scaring the pants off people. No one's ever going to ...

An intrepid puppy who marches for labor rights. A 6-year-old girl who sews herself a locomotive to carry her away from her daily chores. A Jewish boy who would be Pope. These stories, written in ...

Have you ever read a book and thought, "Women's bodies don't really work like that" or "I've never seen a woman actually do anything like this"? Well, you wouldn't be alone. For most of history, ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Writing can be ...

Every year when January 1 comes around, the needlessness of setting goals is shouted from the rooftops. But I, in a clandestine corner of my apartment, earnestly fill out a spreadsheet, organizing my ...