WRITING

The long list includes bacon, peach cobbler, and possum.

The retreat is located on Pelee Island in Lake Erie, where Atwood is a longtime seasonal resident.

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”

Bob Dylan—the legendary artist formerly known as Robert Zimmerman—has spent the past 50-plus years trying to keep a low profile.

In 1858, the poet published a 13-column guide to manly health under a pseudonym.

Save your notes on your tablet or phone without taking a million pictures of your notebook.

When Margaret Atwood got tired of long book tours, she developed a pen that would sign books for her long-distance.

The prolific mystery writer took an active part in her husband’s archaeology digs.

The inventor of Magnetic Poetry was thrust into his life's work by one well-timed sneeze.

The author liked to hunt big game. He also liked to eat it.

When an author dies with their work unfinished, do we let it molder in vaults, stash it away in archives, or publish it for all the world to see—even if that’s not what the writer wanted?

Author Kurt Vonnegut hated interviews, but when he did give them, his insights into writing were especially valuable, sage, and practical.