Writing can at times feel like birthing a Honda Civic: It's hard. It's not pretty. You sweat a lot. And writing can feel like inching your way along a pitch-black, long tunnel. You can make out only ...

This article is based on excerpts from Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content (Wiley, September 2014). The writer Andre Dubus (House of Sand and Fog) has described ...

The US leader's address was one of the clearest expositions of the way he sees the world, writes James Landale.