The recent PBS series on the life of Ernest Hemingway displayed the writing-style rules of the Kansas City Star newspaper, from when Hemingway worked there in 1917 and 1918. He hadn't yet turned 20; ...

PETOSKEY -- Ernest Hemingway's bigger-than-life image seemed to sprawl across the globe. It loomed large in the bars of Cuba and Key West, the salons of Paris, the noisy war zones of Italy and Spain, ...

When it comes to writing a book, there are many reasons to emulate the masters. Proust famously wrote in bed, while Joan Didion took an hour before dinner to read that day’s writing with a drink in ...

The air was clear. Our prose was not. We remembered what Scott had told us about a clean, well-designed place called Future of Storytelling. Scott said we could learn from it. He was right and it was ...