Having just finished a new book on body language, brain science, and how people communicate, due out in May 2014 from Harvard, I’m going to post a brief series on writing – what I’ve learned.

It takes time to write a book. If a typical writer produces 300 words an hour ... There are echoes of musician PJ Harvey, who recorded an album in a glass box in 2015 to show aesthetic production in ...

He is writing a book about the historic center of Naples, and with Pissarro he conducted a sequence of interviews with museum directors for Brooklyn Rail. He is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic.

Writing books can be the most rewarding thing you ever do in an academic or public policy career. Many people compare writing a book to raising children. I wouldn't go quite that far, and I do not ...

Still, in writing about her, I tried to keep the story my own, careful to not attempt to tell hers. It simply wasn’t mine to tell. The book holds heartbreak for her — things her dad said or ...

Over the course of a year, writing the first draft of a book is shockingly attainable. At 1,500 words a week—a few hours’ work—you can have a 75,000-word draft written in 50 weeks.

My first self-published book was printed in batches of about 60 books each and cost me under $2.50 a copy for a 100-page book. With larger print runs, you can get it for less.