"Writing is for me simply recording the story which is currently playing in my head," Gregory Maguire once commented in Something about the Author (SATA). Nevertheless, he added, "sometimes I take a long time getting up the nerve to look in on it."...

... Reading? I'm reading a book called Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life by Julia Briggs. [It's] not a standard biography. It concentrates fairly exclusively on what she was thinking and doing as she was writing each one of her major works. You...

Once upon a time, there lived a young boy who was the middle child in a family of seven siblings. Books were his first love. In stories such as Peter Pan and The Wizard of Oz, he found an escape from his busy...

The latest R&B singer to test his vocal cords in the long-running musical revival of "Chicago" will be Brian McKnight.The Grammy-nominated singer will join the New York cast Oct. 8 as that scamp of a lawyer, Billy Flynn. McKnight is scheduled to appear in the...

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