I appreciated your post “The Second-Book Problem,” as it describes (more accurately than I care to admit) the situation I’m in. My first book was published in September 2020. It was nonfiction. There ...

Students working on their Bachelor's or Master's thesis usually have supervisors at their side who guide, accompany and possibly also correct them during this time. If students have the impression ...

Given how fraught writing for publication can be, it’s understandable for faculty to perceive the process as dehumanizing. Even soul-crunching, as one of our colleagues lamented. College and ...

It's November, which means it's once again time for the biannual Poem A Day Challenge via the Writer's Digest. The guidelines indicate that the goal is to produce a chapbook-length collection of poems ...

Launching from the semester’s end into summer is usually celebrated as a special kind of academic freedom, a chance to get lost in projects and flex your intellectual muscles. But what we’re hearing ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden interviews Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. They talk about Justice Sotomayor's background and her ...

Children are often more creative, braver and happier because they do things for the joy of doing them. They are "intrinsically" motivated and carry out activities that they care about. What if we ...