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The Joy of Writing Outside the Lines
There's an unusual detail about this week's 21 Questions: our featured author is primarily a novelist. Aside from her first book, a memoir, she writes fiction (she publishes some of it, including her latest book, under a French pen name, Da...
Your Book Has a Main Character. It’s Probably Not You.
Many nonfiction writers hit a point where their manuscript just isn’t working, but they can’t figure out why. The truth is, you can know your subject cold and still end up with a manuscript that doesn’t click.
There are a number of possibl...
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Nicholas Epley has spent the last two decades studying one of the stranger contradictions of modern life: human beings are deeply social creatures, yet we often avoid the very interactions that make us happier. A professor of behavioral sci...
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Harper Business publisher Hollis Heimbouch on proposals, positioning, platform, and the realities of nonfiction publishing in 2026.
It’s tough to be a nonfiction author these days. People are overwhelmed with nonfiction content, most of it...
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Harper publisher Hollis Heimbouch on proposals, platforms, and the competition for readers’ attention
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Writer and book editor. I post nonfiction book recs (Next Big Idea Club), host Q&As with authors and publishing pros (Author Insider), and share One Good Paragraph of incredible writing (not mine!) every week.
Theoretical Physicist. Black Feminist Humanist.
Writer/Designer. Author of How To Not Know, The Good Enough Job, and The Article Book Club (Substack) | simonestolzoff.com
Bestselling author of Grief is Love.
I'm the founder and chief everything officer at New Things. Subscribe at thenewthings.com. I'm also the author of I AM NOT A ROBOT: MY YEAR USING AI TO DO (ALMOST) EVERYTHING. Buy it here! joannastern.com.
Professional weirdo. Author of Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Furiously Happy, You are Here, Broken and HOW TO BE OKAY WHEN NOTHING IS OKAY. Proprietress of Nowhere Bookshop.
I’m Manoush Zomorodi, a journalist looking at what all our screen time and sitting are doing to our bodies and brains. I host NPR’s TED Radio Hour and wrote Body Electric (May 5, 2026). This is where I share updates and my ideas in progress.
Journalist and podcaster. Author of Planet Money (the book). Host of Gastronomics (the forthcoming podcast). Avid cyclist. Morning person and mountain guy. Fan of all things ube.
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