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

Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own.

Chihaya’s version of bibliophobia grew out of the fear of one book in particular—the monograph that her career demanded and ...

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 ...