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 ...

Ernest Hemingway is famous for his drinking, but he never said "write drunk, edit sober." Discover the true, surprising ...

Love him or hate him, Ernest Hemingway was undeniably a major force in 20th-century American literature, popularizing a spare, direct mode of writing that contrasted sharply with the perceived ...