How Emmanuel Carrère Reinvented Nonfiction Late last October, as American electoral pandemonium was approaching its climax, I was in a living room in Paris where the 59-year-old French writer and filmmaker Emmanuel Carrère was talking about shame. “To write disagreeable things about the self, dishonorable things,” Carrère told me, reclining like an analysand on a […]

How to Write a Perfect Scene – by writer Lucy Adams   Any literature work consists of scenes. A thorough work on the plot of the story does not absolve the author from an equally thorough work on the scenes. Speaking in military terms, the polishing of scenes is tactics in the war for good […]

How to Choose a Topic for Your Future Book – by writer Lucy Adams It is no secret that a writer often experiences some uncertainty when coming up with a topic. Whether to choose something that will certainly please the audience or take a chance and develop some personal idea, which may not cause a […]

The Ideal Library by Luiz Valério de Paula Trindade —   Some years ago I used to have a private library at home holding slightly over 1,500 titles and for me, that was an amazing achievement. Not only due to the number of titles per se that I considered quite reasonable by that time but […]

Book publishing in the Digital Age, and times of streamed entertainment — by – Luiz Valério de Paula Trindade As it is widely known, in the early 20th century when the television was invented and started to enter the homes of millions of consumers across the globe, there were voices within the movie industry concerned […]

  Interview with comedy writer Brandon C. Jones —     1. Who are you and what do you do? I’m Brandon C. Jones. I’m named after my father…well, chronologically. If I was literally named after my father, my name would be “Alleged, Jr.” I wrote a couple books, for the younger kids, a book […]