For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the ...

First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic’s Books section: What Stephen Miller gets wrong about human nature “First ...

Nov. 1 marks the start of NaNoWriMo, an annual novel-writing challenge, and participants are scrambling to hit their daily 1,667 word count goal. But this year, the organization is facing controversy ...

Every January, a familiar thought creeps into the minds of many: This is the year I finally write the novel. If you’ve ever tried to follow through on that promise and thought about using AI to ...

Scott turned Annie Dillard’s lessons in writing into lessons in philanthropy. MacKenzie Scott helped build one of the most ...

This week’s story, “ Deal-Breaker ,” will appear in your new collection, “ This Is Not About Us ,” which comes out in February. It gathers the stories you’ve been writing about an extended family, the ...

This week, NaNoWriMo announced that it was officially shutting down. National Novel Writing Month, shortened to “NaNoWriMo”, was a US non-profit organisation that encouraged people to try and write a ...

Every time I turn around, Jami Attenberg has published another novel or memoir. But I do not begrudge her this, because I know how she does it. For years, Jami has enlisted conspirators in writing a ...

Author Daniyal Mueenuddin has hit the ground running with his debut novel, This is Where the Serpent Lives. Set in modern ...