British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) sat in his study in Gads Hill near Rochester, Kent circa 1860. He wrote one of the best first lines in literature. Great opening lines to books set the ...

Movies adapted from books have a reputation for falling short. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with NPR's Barrie Hardymon and Andrew Limbong about what's good and bad about books turned into movies. All ...

Alan Gratz's children's book "Ban This Book" was published in 2017. Seven years later, his novel for kids ages 8 and older is at the center of a debate over book banning after a Florida school ...

When most people talk about a book changing their life, they’re talking about a book they read — a book that changed their perspective or way of thinking. But for many authors, writing a book can be ...

During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars ...

Editor’s Note: Previously in this series, our expert on scholarly publishing has offered advice on approaching an editor, getting a book contract, and turning a dissertation into a book. “Timely” is ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be. By Elisabeth ...