I have a literary secret weapon. In fact, it’s so good I’m reluctant to spread the word about it, for fear of giving up what I consider a big...

I’m not sure whether other writers do this, but there’s a step I perform in the final rewrites of all of my books that I call ‘Playing the Movie’...

In a well known Zen story, a master calligrapher draws the Japanese characters for ‘The First Principle’ 84 times as a critical student looks on...