She dropped it so casually, this elegant bit of writing advice, that I have now been using for over nine years. It has saved me money and...

As an undergraduate, I went to the Young Building on Friday afternoons and climbed the curved staircase to the door of Peter's office. We...

At the New York City premiere of Greta Gerwig's Little Women in 2019, Emma Watson gave a short interview with Variety about the...

Taylor takes the concept of the modern romantics to new heights in this song, asking if songwriters are the poets of our modern times.

The women of Taylor Swift’s latest album, folklore, are a handful. They “never leave well enough alone;” they “talk sh*t" ...

They tell you that the path to becoming a writer is either MFA or NYC. I've thought about an MFA. I've attended the info sessions at...

When the new Little Women was set to release last Christmas, many people were asking this question: do we really need another Little...

I found out I'd been accepted to Elsewhere Studios for two months while I was in Paris with Kerri. It felt important because these were...

Not everyone is a Jo or even wants to be one. There are plenty of Jos out there: strong-willed women who love to climb trees, who would...

The girls next to me in the first showing of Little Women were chatting all through the previews. But I knew they had read the book,...

“If I was a girl in a book this would all be so easy,” Jo March tells her mother in the newest adaptation of Little Women, released on...

People who are born to make things--to make photographs or essays or paintings--are faced too often with the choice between earning money...

One of my Awake readers recently wrote to me: "I have a writer trapped inside of me." If you feel like this too, I think it's time to set...

I woke up after midnight, when John was just coming in from his celestial observations. “It’s today,” I told him, muffled by sleep. ...

Nearly every presenter said with enthusiasm, “I’m so grateful to present this to people who already know what I’m talking about!” It was...

Bronson Alcott notoriously didn't translate well onto the page. In life, he was lauded as charming, a conversationalist that could hold...

Wyeths in the Farnsworth Art Museum Memoirists, of course, spend a lot of time thinking about the past--so it's perhaps no wonder that...

15,000 writers gathered at the Los Angeles Convention Center last weekend, sporting their quirky outfits and thick glasses and carrying...