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From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times best-selling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a literary masterclass on how to become both a better writer and reader, on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about how to live. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the listener through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for 20 years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program.

Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions, and shape our politics and beliefs. We use them to construct our relationships, to keep order in our law courts, to interpret events in our newspapers and social media. Storytelling is an essential part of what makes us human.

From the newly appointed National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, a timely and intimate meditation on the ways we think about and interact with children’s literature, and what that says about our opinions of children and childhood.

Rising waters are flooding cities and homes across the globe, from Florida to Nepal. By 2050, 150 million people will live below the high tide line, facing an uncertain future as cities like London and Shanghai grapple with worsening floods.

As a White House speechwriter, Terry Szuplat helped craft hundreds of speeches for President Obama. But when it came to public speaking himself, Szuplat—like many people—was gripped by anxiety and preferred to stay in the shadows. When he was invited to give the first major speech of his life, he faced a choice: keep hiding from what scared him, or finally face his fears.

As anchor for the BBC's key political news programme, Newsnight, Emily Maitlis has interviewed some of the most powerful and controversial figures on the political scene. She plans each interview meticulously, knowing what she wants to ask and where she wants it to go, but as one of the most experienced journalists in her field she knows that no interview will ever go to plan....

Writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby co-created the all-star group of six superheroes in September 1963. From there, just three main writers chronicled Earth's Mightiest Heroes in that most turbulent of decades: Roy Thomas, Steve Englehart, and Jim Shooter, each with differing approaches. The Avengers quickly became the pivot around which the Marvel Universe turned. To look back through its issues is to get a crash course in '70s pop culture.

Zero to 1K is a 100-day writing challenge designed for the chaotic, the creatively fried, and the “I swear I used to have potential” crowd. It starts with one minute a day. No words. No pressure. Just proof that you showed up. By Day 100? You’ll be writing 1,000 words a day, five days a week—with a thick, glorious 38,500 words drafted and a sustainable habit that doesn’t make you want to scream.

In this book of essays, over forty successful writers in varied fields―poetry, science, the performing and visual arts, psychoanalysis, journalism, literature, and more―explore what drives them to write, and to work at their craft. In contributions arranged under three headings―"Models and Mentors," "Urges and Traumas," and "Evidence and Experiences"―each writer explores their personal understanding of writing as a psychological necessity. In varying ways, these candid, often emotional essays reveal a range of intimate, mysterious, and unpredictable purposes and motivations.

Drawing on examples ranging from Chaucer to children's rhymes, Cole Porter to Dylan Thomas, and from around the English-speaking world, it shows how any reader can understand and gain pleasure from poetry. This comprehensive guide explores poetry's relationship to everyday language and introduces major genres and technical aspects. Each chapter proceeds through chronological examples from a wide range of English language poems.

Do you feel called to write a book that will positively impact lives? Whether you’ve started writing your book or are stuck in the idea phase, Awaken Into Flow offers a profound and proven approach to finding clarity and momentum on your book-writing journey. Transformational book coach Catherine S. Gregory leads listeners through a transformative process as they embark upon becoming published book authors.

Doctor Strange, one of Marvel's most fascinating early characters, began at the hands of co-creators Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, and his ethereal voyages through other dimensions made him an important figure in 1960s culture. Over his first ten years, a succession of writers and artists—including Roy Thomas, Gene Colan, Gardner F. Fox, P. Craig Russell, Marie Severin, and notably Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner—expanded on Ditko's original mind-bending concepts.

William Somerset Maugham (January 25, 1874-December 16, 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university. He became a medical student in London and qualified as a physician in 1897. He never practiced medicine, and became a full-time writer. The following is a 1955 recording of a conversation between Maugham and British critic and journalist Alan Pryce-Jones.

Nesta série, invertemos o ângulo pelo qual um caso de abuso sexual normalmente é tratado para mirá-lo sob um novo prisma: o da cobertura na imprensa. Por trás da explosão de denúncias contra o ex-líder espiritual João de Deus, acusado de estuprar mais de 300 mulheres, estava uma jornalista que enfrentou, dentro da própria redação, uma corrida de obstáculos para que um furo de reportagem fosse publicado. Silenciadas é uma série sobre jornalismo e sobre as vozes das mulheres.

Virtual Voice Audible Millionaire is your definitive guide to mastering Virtual Voice, Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), and Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). Virtual Voice is Amazon's innovative computer-generated speech technology that produces audiobooks in five steps. Although still in beta, U.S. authors have published over 60,000 audiobooks using Virtual Voice.

Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR’s founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR’s core mission: fearless reporting, global perspective, and intellectual rigor. Each selection remains strikingly relevant today, offering historical insights that challenge contemporary perspectives and reaffirm the power of journalism to shape the world.

At midcentury, everyone knew Bennett Cerf: witty, beloved, middle-aged panelist on What’s My Line?, whom TV brought into America’s homes each week. They didn’t know the handsome, driven, paradoxical young man of the 1920s who’d vowed to become a great publisher, and a decade later, was. By then, he’d signed Eugene O’Neill, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, and had fought the landmark censorship case that gave Americans the freedom to read James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR’s founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR’s core mission: fearless reporting, global perspective, and intellectual rigor. Each selection remains strikingly relevant today, offering historical insights that challenge contemporary perspectives and reaffirm the power of journalism to shape the world.

Attraverso un accurato ed esaustivo approfondimento di una segnalazione-denuncia proveniente da un articolo del "Corriere della Sera" del giugno 2025 a cura di Milena Gabanelli, l'autore ripercorre le pieghe e l'essenza di quello che è stato finora considerato uno dei Concorsi letterari per esordienti e non-, riportando al lettore e all'ascoltatore la realtà palese del Premio Internazionale "Mario Luzi", comune, purtroppo, a molte iniziative analoghe.

What if your newsletter could become the heartbeat of your business—and you could write it in under 30 minutes? In The Newsletter Engine, author and digital coach Jonathan Milligan reveals a proven, step-by-step system for turning one weekly email into a powerful engine that grows your audience, builds trust, and leads to sales—without the stress or guesswork.