Creating a good description helps us define our characters for the reader, which is the first step towards bringing them to life.
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Growing up in the small corner allocated to him by his Soviet overlords, the writer Sergei Dovlatov was schooled in the economy of space.
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On a chilly December night in 1927, the elite of New York filed into Carnegie Hall to hear a new concerto by one of the city’s most popular men.
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In 2009, I had the misfortune of being both single and unpublished. One should never try to date and sell a novel at the same time; one bleeds into the other.
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Why it’s appropriate that the narrowest house in the world was named for Israeli writer Etgar Keret.
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