Author, comedian and actor Chelsea Handler stopped by the L.A. Times Festival of Books to talk about writing, words and answer Very Important Questions.

This kind of prompt requires the model to embark on a series of tasks, often completing them in an order to generate the end ...

An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn’t perfect.

For a writing exercise, Purpura suggested taking a work-in-progress piece to an unfamiliar space and reading it aloud, taking ...

When I was a kid, I devoured every fantasy novel I could get my hands on, and that includes the Chronicles of Narnia books by C.S. Lewis. I found the books to be incredibly accessible and to hold up ...