What makes some books so adaptable? Which books have been adapted most often? There is a short list of books…
Who is the best-selling novelist in history?
As you may have guessed, according to a recent study, it is Agatha Christie. LitHub has the boiled down facts.…
You are speaking at “39.15 bits per second” – new universal feature of language discovered
Most popular at the Atlantic just now. Read how information conveyance is constant even when the speed of spoken languages…
8 reasons why not everyone will read your book and why that’s perfectly fine
Write for those who will appreciate what you have to say. As a writer, you will certainly have your favorite…
The Best of 50 Book Covers
You know you are successful when someone can write an article on the best 50 book covers for one of…
What books do you leave behind? A list of most-left books
See the list here – to find a book suggestion, see how many of the 20 titles you’ve read, or…
It’s cloudy with errors
“I’ve not read The English Patient since it came out in 1992, and I suspect and know more than anyone…
Dyslexics can be writers – and super storytellers. It’s the content that counts, and technology continues to open doors
I began writing with the help of an AI-powered browser plug-in so adept at correcting my linguistic missteps, it ended…
John Powers writes about writing: UBG (Ultimate Bad Guy), RH (Reluctant Hero), WWG (Woman with a Gun), or DD (Dude who Dies) and so much more
I often tell people I didn’t earn a Bachelor’s degree in English and instead wound up with one. There was…
Explaining the rules: grammar
Rules have locked into our collective thinking about what serves as ‘elegant writing’. As deemed by John Dryden, it is…
Unity in Writing 