The former editor of this paper, Ben Trollinger, asked me to start writing a weekly column, rather persistently, for more than a year. I think he was looking for an authentic, accurate progressive ...

For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to be a writer in some capacity or another. Growing up, I spent all the free time I had working on angsty teenage love poems and cringe-worthy ...

Hmm, what’s my process? Funny, I don’t think anyone’s ever asked me that before. I don’t really have a “process,” per se, just a simple routine that I meticulously follow every day like a disciplined ...

Matthew Johnson is an English teacher from Ann Arbor, Mich., and the author of Flash Feedback: Responding to Student Writing Better and Faster – Without Burning Out (published by Corwin Press). His ...

When I was writing my first book, I thought of it as a mountain I had to climb. Or a hurdle to jump. I imagined it as a test: scary, stressful, threatening failure with each page I drafted. A ...

It’s a weird and complicated experience, picking up a book that covers familiar territory and realizing it’s better than what you might have written. That was the case when I first read Helen Sword’s ...

A single sentence from a faculty mentor cut deeper than I expected—because it wasn’t the first time my voice had been questioned. I spent decades believing I was not good enough to become a writer.

My next book, A Living Remedy, will be out in April. Last month, when I shared designer Vivian Lowe’s gorgeous cover for it and began begging for preorders (as writers must), it felt like the ...

Eminem is a Grammy-winning rapper with countless songs in his repertoire, covering seemingly everything from relationships to addiction. Now, over two decades into his career, Eminem himself feels ...

From the first question, Variety’s A Night in the Writers’ Room gathering of five drama showrunners was a lively affair as the scribes compared notes and reflected on how much television has changed ...