This week’s story, “ The Readers ,” takes the form of a one-sided conversation between a male writer and a female therapist. He’s addressing her as he analyzes his feelings about a decision she’s made ...

Variety hosted a panel for the short film “The Writer,” with directors Austin Glasser and Luke Madenwald on Dec. 3 This conversation, moderated by Variety‘s chief film critic Peter DeBruge, was part ...

Danny Cox has never seen a movie in his entire life. The most famous writer of The Simpsons is obviously Conan O'Brien, but even if they are not known by name, plenty of writers have gone on to some ...

First published in the spring of 1994, two months before the birth of Amazon and one month after the death of Kurt Cobain, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott has far outlasted the era of its origin, becoming ...

In “Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits,” an essay published in 2013, the writer and translator Lydia Davis offers a cardinal rule: “work on your character.” (She happened on a variation of ...

Naomi Watts plays a writer in mourning who is given a formidable gift from a friend in this adaptation of the Sigrid Nunez novel. By Sheri Linden When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Mr. Rosenblatt is the author of “Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing,” as well as, most recently, “A Steinway on the Beach: Wounds and Other Blessings.” See more of our ...