When I wrote my first play "Crazy for Life," I had no idea what I was doing. Seriously. I had acted before but never written a one-person show, particularly one about my own experience living with ...

It might seem that writers live pretty safe lives. Yes, there are some, mostly journalists, who immerse themselves in troubled and war-torn countries, and they can and do get hurt. But most of us who ...

"Books were portals meant for escapism," Benjamin Percy says in "Thrill Me," the titular essay in his new nonfiction collection. He's speaking of his childhood in rural Oregon, where he found new ...

Writers like myself are a ubiquitous lot, as a visit to any Starbucks makes clear, but my experience suggests that non-writers know relatively little about the profession. Indeed, while many Americans ...

Today’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Scot Young, who grew up in Raytown, Missouri before settling in Ozark County. He has been writing since his junior and high school days. Scot says he ...

Humans spend a lot of their waking hours avoiding thoughts of our inevitable end. That’s probably for the best, since dwelling on your death is a morbid exercise. But, it turns out, it’s also a very ...

Dawn Garisch is affiliated with the Life Righting Collective. She is a facilitator on the courses it runs. Steve Reid receives funding from South African Medical Research Council. He is a ...

In her latest film, French documentary-maker Claire Simon turns her lens on Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux. Eschewing the biopic format, Simon captures candid classroom debates across France and Guiana, ...