Emily Chang’s advice for writers: It’s good not to know all the answers
"Brotopia" author Chang was worried about tackling a subject as big as women in tech. But then she learned the best books come out of not knowing all the answers up front.
National Book Critics Awards to be announced tonight; see the finalists
The winners of this year’s National Book Critics Circle awards, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in America, will be announced tonight at the New School in New York City.
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Tracking the breakdown of American social institutions in ‘The Unwinding’
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Ann Patchett gets personal in her new collection of essays
Ann Patchett reflects on her new book with chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown.
Jeffrey Brown talks to John J. Ross, author of "Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough."…
The National Book Awards were handed out at a dinner Wednesday night in New York to four new books, whose subjects ranged from life on a Native American reservation to a settlement community in Mumbai.
Jeffrey Brown talks to author Adam Brent Houghtaling.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Greenblatt reads an excerpt from "The Swerve."…
Leslie Maitland reads from her book, "Crossing the Borders of Time."…
