If you had an opportunity to sit down with a favorite celebrity, a sports idol, or a hero, what would you ask? How do Hall of Fame basketball coaches learn from failure? What do former U.S. presidents ...

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Nearly half (47%) of Americans think they could write a self-help book based on their life experiences, new research suggests. A recent survey of 2,000 US adults discovered that youth and wisdom are ...

The Fox News host and former White House press secretary has a new book offering professional and personal life guidance, and sees particular relevance in today's tech-dominated moment. By Alex Weprin ...

Many of us with professions that center on writing once toiled in a book shop to make ends meet, including me. When I worked at Barnes & Noble in college, I was dumbfounded by how many books there ...

J.P. Donleavy clocks the absurdities of human conduct in his satirical advice guide, “The Unexpurgated Code.” By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we ...

If you’re about to become a new parent or have questions about whether you’re doing a good job, it’s probable that you’ve turned to a parenting book. The idea of an advice book for parents goes back ...

“A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are actually teaching ourselves how to ...