When I was in my twenties I put writers on a pedestal, believing that writing is an exertion of power. I still largely feel this way because in our present time, where attention is fleeting, to be ...

As I sit down to write this column, my final one for the year 2024, a whirlwind of emotions stirs within me. This year marks a significant milestone—a decade since I began writing for The Star. A ...

Are your relatives and friends urging you to share your life experiences? Would you like to capture your memories on the page? Written reflections on life and memories can create social connections ...

In January, longtime NewsHour essayist Roger Rosenblatt returned to our studio to talk about his new book on a subject that many of our viewers and readers hold dear. Unless It Moves The Human Heart: ...

When I applied for The Stanford Daily’s Summer Journalism program in 2019 in the spring of my sophomore year, I had been part of my school’s journalism club only for a few months. Although I ...

Since 2002 I have written somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 articles and blog posts for various publications. This one is my 109th Email Insider column. I had planned to use my 100th Email Insider ...

“Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir,” Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, by Deirdre Bair Deirdre Bair has spent her life writing well-received biographies of some of the 20th ...

Editor's Note: See Randy Fox's story this week on Grimey's Too, and his past stories on Phonoluxe, The Great Escape, Ernest Tubb and The Groove. A little less than a year ago I began writing about ...

Mooresville resident Dorothy Pentz O’Neill’s writing career began in second grade. At the time, she was in the second grade at Staten Island Academy in New York City. Seventy years later, her first ...