The second problem is that Split Fiction is incredibly rote. There is a level based on Dune. You turn into Iron Man at points ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

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These creative alternatives to book reports can spark imaginations, boost comprehension, and reignite a love for reading.

Salman Rushdie's First Book of Fiction Since His Stabbing Will Be Published in November NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie has a collection of novellas and short stories coming out this fall ...

Magic 8-Balls? If you’re able, check out the review pictures because they’ll do better justice to the odd look of the Nova than my Creative Writing degree ever could. If you can’t see them, ...

Reading the finished story, I kept thinking there was no momentum and no narrative arc. It was a failing grade. So far, everything I knew about chatbots writing fiction proved accurate — a ...

I was grading assignments for an undergraduate course in memoir writing when I experienced ... outsourcing not only their creative labor but their life stories to a computer.

I recently learned a man who was in love with me in college has been writing extensively about me in personal essays and auto-fiction he writes ... with the stories he writes which, to me, at ...