David Cooper is a poet, translator, book reviewer, and journalist. His translation of Israeli poet Rachel Eshed’s book, Little Promises, is published in a bilingual edition by Mayapple Press. In its Hebrew original, this...

Biography.com details how Eleanor Roosevelt changed the role of the first lady through her active and outspoken participation in American politics.

Today my friend and master graphic designer, Lia Gallegos, sent over the final proof for the cover to What Beauty after a couple drafts, through which we hammered out details.

Doctorow's The Book of Daniel investigates the hysteria and political maneuvering around the social contract between American citizens and their freedom to choose political parties with which they might affiliate themselves.

No one's face is perfectly symmetrical, and for that we see the whole person; in fact it's often those imperfections that we like or love most about our mate.

March 22, 2012 at 3:51 pm · Filed under Ways of Seeing Joseph Conrad said his duty to readers was, “by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel… before all, to make you see. That – and no more, and it is...

Will Europa Editions' newly published English translation of Italian writer Diego De Silva's comic novel I Hadn't Understood appeal to Jewish New Yorkers? In...

"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.” Dr Johnson There seem to be thousands of books out there that claim to either be able to help you to write or to help you get published. If there isn’t a Dummies Guide To Writing And Publishing A Novel yet (note to self – check!) then [...]

I have just set up a new Group on Linkedin, the Chapter 1 club so please do check it out. The idea is that it can be a Linkedin showcase for writers so please join and post: the title of your book (it might be useful to add a genre description to help potential readers find what's [...]

The other day I commented on a LinkedIN discussion thread, where a writer recommended to (I can only imagine) inexperienced writers that dialogue should be paramount to a story. I think she is wrong on several grounds.

Let's all the normal people, own marriage... Let not the marriage of true minds Find impediment in Church or Government. In definition of sexuality. Where's the humanity In our democracy If yet again the divisions and schisms;...

I have been watching the painfully slow progress of technology evolving to the inevitable world of 2001 A Space Odyssey, with talking computers, wireless communications, voice command vehicles and flat screen computers.  I found it funny, initially, when everyone gasped over the ingenuity and originality of the iPad w

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Last week, in writing about the top social media influencers I was struck by the sheer scale of connectivity that leading influencers create for themselves. Chris Brogan for example has an...