Winning an award named for “Black Poet Laureate” Langston Hughes has been especially meaningful in different ways for fiction writer Tasha Haas and poet Nedra Rogers. For Haas, who prizes rhythm in ...

Cover of Sweet Land Stories, Doctorow's latest work. In a way, E.L. Doctorow was destined to become a writer. Born Edgar Laurence Doctorow, he was named after Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th-century ...

The writer John McPhee spoke with host Tom Ashbrook on April 16 about life, literature, and the writing craft. It was a notable chat with one of America's greatest non-fiction writers. If you missed ...

A powerful force in writing is the imagery of sound. Editors tell us to “make it sing.” Good sentences are said to have a “rhythm.” Our lead strikes the “right note,” creating just the right “tone” ...

Add another ‘r’ t o that ubiquitous list of reading, writing and arithmetic — rhythm. Throughout September, October and early November, the younger set can get their groove on at local libraries in ...