How to build a road map for a nonfiction book (and why)

Posted on February 5, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Once again, we know many authors prefer a more improvisational approach to writing, even if there is some structure underneath....

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Jane Friedman, Nonfiction, Writing advice

Actress Gillian Anderson is compiling a book of women's desires

Posted on February 3, 2023 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Actress Gillian Anderson stars as a sex therapist in the TV show Sex Education. And so her next creative project...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Nonfiction, Pop culture, Romance, Women in literature

Here are the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize shortlists

Posted on February 3, 2023 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The contenders for the new incarnation of the Rathbones Folio Prize have been announced. For 2023, the prize has expanded...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Awards, Book lists, Nonfiction, Poetry

Read an excerpt from "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer"

Posted on January 31, 2023 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Today is writer Norman Mailer's birthday, making the release of an excerpt from a book — as well as the...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Bookish anniversaries, Excerpt, Literary Hub, Nonfiction

Author Marie Kondo talks about learning to embrace messiness

Posted on January 30, 2023 at 9:59 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Everyone is entitled to change their opinion, of course — even authors of self-help books. So we're not here to...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Nonfiction, NPR

Marion Meade, author of several biographies, has died

Posted on January 23, 2023 at 12:10 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

When we saw author Marion Meade's obituary, we recognized the name immediately from her biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine and...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Nonfiction, Obituary, Pop culture, The New York Times, Women in literature

Jonathan Raban, whose writings traveled the globe, has died

Posted on January 19, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Author Jonathan Raban has passed away at age eighty. You might know him from his writings about travel, yet, as...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Nonfiction, Obituary, The New York Times

How the January 6 committee report compares to its predecessors

Posted on January 18, 2023 at 2:02 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Publishers had their plans in place, months in advance — they wanted to be ready to release the January 6...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Nonfiction, NPR, Politics, Publishing

Recent literary deaths: 2 poets, 1 cookbook writer

Posted on January 10, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The following three writers have died in the past month, and while they might not be household names to all...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Nonfiction, Obituary, Poetry

New book: Let's pull the negative power out of the word "fat"

Posted on January 10, 2023 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

As NPR's Juana Summers notes, this is one of the times of the year when many of us think more...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Author interview, Nonfiction, NPR