Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising new titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider in February.

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Ann Patchett, who owns a Nashville bookstore, has written numerous best sellers. She talks about her love of reading and how it inspires her writing ...

But it also meanders quite a lot, and is somewhere between a self-help book and a stream of anecdotes. It mimics my chatty style of writing, but it's also a bit repetitive, and very verbose. It may ...

The Authors Guild — one of the largest associations of writers in the US — has launched a new project that allows authors to ...

It’s among the more playful matters on his mind in “Shattered,” a memoir of the injury that took away his ability to turn ...

We spoke with author Heather McBreen about her writing process, why failure can be an opportunity for redirection and how her ...

The Eagles wideout was comfortable enough to start reading a book on the sidelines after a field goal by Jake Elliott. "I haven't seen too many people read books but I have seen a quarterback eat ...

If your New Year's resolution was to read more fiction ... novel comes from the mind of Pulitzer-Prize and National Book Award finalist, Laila Lalami. The brilliantly twisted piece of literary ...

Booklovers have long debated whether politics belong in online book communities. Readers and authors, including Jodi Picoult, ...