Is There an Inherent Connection Between Sadness and Art-Making?

Is There an Inherent Connection Between Sadness and Art-Making?

From Beethoven to Leonard Cohen, Susan Cain Wonders About Melancholy and Creativity

By Susan Cain | April 7, 2022

How Acting in True Crime Shows Allowed Me to Write the Story of My Stepsister’s Murder

How Acting in True Crime Shows Allowed Me to Write the Story of My Stepsister’s Murder

Rachel Rear on Grappling with Her Family’s Trauma, and Her Own

By Rachel Rear | April 7, 2022

The Power and Necessity of Learning from Books That Reflect Our Communities

The Power and Necessity of Learning from Books That Reflect Our Communities

Luma Mufleh on Designing Culturally Responsive Curricula

By Luma Mufleh | April 7, 2022

WATCH: Roger Reeves and A. Van Jordan on the Evolving Vitality of Verse

WATCH: Roger Reeves and A. Van Jordan on the Evolving Vitality of Verse

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | April 7, 2022

Celebrating 100 Episodes of <em>Book Dreams</em> with Book Recs from Past Guests

Celebrating 100 Episodes of Book Dreams with Book Recs from Past Guests

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | April 7, 2022

Barry Nalebuff: Don’t Fight Fire With Fire; Fight Fire With Water

Barry Nalebuff: Don’t Fight Fire With Fire; Fight Fire With Water

This Week on Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | April 7, 2022

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | April 7, 2022

Artist Kim Schoenstadt on Finding Redemption Through Creativity and Kinship

By Change Lab | April 7, 2022

Scottish university cruelly cancels poor, defenseless, under-read Jane Austen. England panics.

By Jonny Diamond | April 6, 2022

Toward an Alternative Canon of Trauma Literature: A Reading List

Toward an Alternative Canon of Trauma Literature: A Reading List

Chantal V. Johnson Recommends Books That Move Beyond the Trauma Plot

By Chantal V. Johnson | April 6, 2022

How Shirley Hughes Captured the Everyday Magic of Childhood

How Shirley Hughes Captured the Everyday Magic of Childhood

Ellen O'Connell Whittet on the Beloved Children's Author

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet | April 6, 2022

Welcome to Season 3 of <em>The Cosmic Library</em>

Welcome to Season 3 of The Cosmic Library

Join Us For a Journey Through and Beyond the Hebrew Bible

By The Cosmic Library | April 6, 2022

adrienne maree brown on What it Looks Like to Organize with Integrity

adrienne maree brown on What it Looks Like to Organize with Integrity

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | April 6, 2022

The Secret Lives of Writers and Mothers

The Secret Lives of Writers and Mothers

Aamina Ahmad on Coming to Know Her Mother's Truest Self

By Aamina Ahamd | April 6, 2022

How Writers Can Best Conceptualize Their Work

How Writers Can Best Conceptualize Their Work

Graeme Simsion on the Key to Developing Engaging Ideas

By Graeme Simsion | April 6, 2022

Being Funny Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Be a Serious Writer

Being Funny Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Be a Serious Writer

Gina Sorell on Writing Humor with a Serious Face

By Gina Sorell | April 6, 2022

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