Valiunis makes an attempt to find in the canon writers more sympathetic to a business life.

FORBES: Do All Novelists Hate Business?

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.

NEWYORKER: Nell Freudenberger

Teaching this to young adults is a labor of love because we are responsible for developing life-long readers and writers and this task is not taken lightly by my team.

WHITEHOUSE: Teaching Is a Gift, Not a Job

Writers and journalists clamoured to interview, and celebrate, a participant in a legendary truce whose life eventually stretched across three centuries.

ECONOMIST: Bertie Felstead

Ms Nafisi's earlier memoir did an excellent job of exploring the absurdities of life under the ayatollahs, using the vehicle of a literary discussion group that dissected the works of writers such as Vladimir Nabokov and Henry James.

ECONOMIST: Memoir of Iran