Liverpool literary sensation Helen Walsh talks about teen rebellion, prostitution and her debut novel "Brass," the story of a bisexual female predator roaming the Merseyside streets.

Kathryn Stockett's bestseller hits the screen, and its fable of Jim Crow-era Mississippi hits close to home

Get a bunch of bestselling authors together and what do they talk about? The agonies of success.

She may be too authentic for Maureen Dowd, but the bold and plain-spoken candidate's wife has made doubting Iowans into believers.

In her relentless pursuit of the truth she's left a few bodies in her wake, but isn't that part of a journalist's job?

Tochi Onyebuchi spoke to Salon about writng about white supremacy that's not for the white gaze

Two novelists on the pain in black authors' writing, the influence of Toni Morrison, the tradition of storytelling

Whether she's guilty or not, there's something about the accused murderess that will always arouse our suspicion

What happened to the idea that it's wrong to fire 20 percent of your staff and give yourself a raise?

The "Dear Thief" author on why we're only just starting to see great novels about female friendship

What is a memoir anyway? Readers respond to Vivian Gornick's defense of her work.

Lauren Weisberger talks about life as an underling at Vogue, how her editor shields her from negative press, and her new roman a clef, "The Devil Wears Prada."

Catharine MacKinnon's new book argues that when it comes to human rights, women are hardly in the picture.

The author of the smash memoir "Wild" dishes to Salon about Oprah, her new advice book and our "universal" problems

Kate Atkinson's new novel follows the multiple lives of an Englishwoman trying to get her own story just right