John Warner

In the years when I was teaching at Clemson University (2005-2011), it was a virtual guarantee that just about every student had read at least one book entirely for pleasure...

It isn't even Labor Day, and yet I'm already experiencing fall fiction FOMO. For years I've been complaining — sometimes in this space — about the standard practice of publishers...

Back in June, Marc Andreessen, co-founder of tech investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, and my fellow graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (go Illini!), wrote about how artificial intelligence was...

Every so often I like to check back in with my past reading self as a way to gauge who I was then versus who I am now. We all...

It is very hard to write a great second novel. Often, a first novel is the product of many years of work, a buildup of everything an individual artist has...

TikTok is getting into the publishing business. Well, it's ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok that is getting into the publishing business. ByteDance is apparently distressed that it has a...

Back when I was teaching literature and writing courses at the college level, my students, nice young people with lives of promise in front of them, would occasionally express a...

I told a friend that I'd just read Lorrie Moore's new novel, "I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home," and they followed up with the logical next question...

In a lot of ways, we are our memories. The things we've done, the people we've intersected with, and how these people and events have shaped us are not just...