For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

Students from the Santa Maria Valley participated in the author event at Abel Maldonado Community Youth Center. (Courtesy ...

Nora Roberts is so prolific she had to take up a pen name so her publisher could release more of her books each year. It’s ...

In “Bibliophobia,” Sarah Chihaya combines criticism and memoir to write about reading’s role in a life’s highs and lows ...