Today would have been J.D. Salinger's 101st birthday. His son, Matt Salinger, shares some thoughts on why his books finally made it to Kindle, which of his father's books is his favorite, and why.

If you read Kristen Arnett’s wry and heartrending debut, Mostly Dead Things, the Morton family will top your list...

Pulitzer Prize-winner Ian Urbina outlines a few of the characters who populate "The Outlaw Ocean."

The author of Lost in Arcadia on the power, and magic, of stories, and the family folklore that spurred the writing of his latest novel.   

The bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl and other tales of Tudor-era intrigue untethers herself from a specific historical muse in a fascinating new family saga...

What day job?

The author of "Daisy Jones & the Six" tells us why she wrote the book as an oral history. And why it worked. 

Write about what you love, "or else you probably shouldn’t write at all"...

D. Wystan Owen, author of Other People's Love Affairs, on the virtues of slowing down, and piping down.

She does embarrassing things so you don't have to, all in service of "[celebrating] our bodies in all of their heinous glory."

Maxim Loskutoff grew up among the disenfranchised and angry rebels of the American West's "Sagebrush Rebellion," and his his short story collection, Come West and See, is filled with them. He talks with us about the past, present, and future of "our national release valve"—and what might happen if we choose not to reckon with our growing divide.

Jonathan Green spent years researching one of the most powerful and ruthless gangs of the crack-fueled '80s and '90s that is still referenced in rap songs decades later.  In this exclusive piece, Green talks about the cultural power of Sex Money Murder.

Bestselling SF thriller writer A.G. Riddle names the novels that have stuck with him—and why.

Six dogs—real and fictional—who have influenced the core of Western literature.

Why read fiction? In this guest post, the author of one of our Best of the Month picks for January, offers a very compelling reason...