Natalie Goldberg shoots from the hip. The the author of Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Goldberg is an artist and teacher who doesn't suffer fools, mince words, or waiver in her ...

In the decade leading up to writing her novel for children, Madeleine L’Engle draped her typewriter like a paramedic drapes the body of a victim awaiting transport to the morgue. Pam Mellskog / Mommy ...

Wendell Berry’s instructions to rural writers to move back home for renewed artistic inspiration and fulfillment has been followed nearly to the point of cliché. The Kentucky poet, who is the urban ...

"Of the beasts of the field, and of the fishes of the sea, and of all foods that are acceptable in my sight you may eat, but not in the living room." The object of what I write is to move the gods to ...

A NH Humanities discussion about Picoult's long career. New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult and New Hampshire Poet Laureate Alexandria Peary take the stage for a NH Humanities discussion ...

From Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life, an improvisation on the literary canon, which was published in August by Soft Skull Press. i. The dream is to create a… ...