How a Mid-Career Shift Into Screenwriting Helped Inspire Aja Gabel’s New Novel

The author wrote her second book 'The Lightbreakers' while working in the writers room for shows like 'The Staircase' and ...

Poet Kate Baer explores the beauty and tension of mid life in 'How About Now'

NPR's Scott Detrow sat down with poet Kate Baer at Midtown Scholar, a bookstore in Harrisburg, Penn., to talk about her new book of poetry, How About Now.

Salman Rushdie’s new book is his first fiction since a brutal attack. He tells us why

Salman Rushdie's new book, “The Eleventh Hour,” marks a creative reset for the author. It's his first fiction work since ...

In The Eleventh Hour, Salman Rushdie writes like he’s running out of time

For readers new to Rushdie, The Musician of Kahani is the story to read first. Ranging over several decades, its young female ...