Readers & Writers, NCPR's conversation on contemporary literature, invites into the studio visiting authors, and invites listeners to call in to join the conversation. The program is hosted by NCPR ...

Famed author and University of Chicago alumna Susan Sontag, AB’51, once wrote: “I write—and talk—in order to find out what I think.” A new course in the College is allowing first-years to put that ...

Kent Nerburn cradles in his palm a small turtle carved from clay quarried at Pipestone, a place in southwestern Minnesota sacred to American Indian people. This little guy plays an important role in ...

There’s no question that it takes a village to make a novel a success, no matter how wonderful the writing and the story. I started building a tribe that would help to define me as a novelist, in my ...