Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. Since joining the platform in January 2015, Darling has earned ...

Follow your heart and your dreams will come true is a cutesy Hallmark sentiment. Follow your heart and your dreams will probably come crashing into a heap around you is the more realistic version, one ...

In a Current Comment item in the America issue of March 2, 2008, the editors commented on microfiction, the venerable subgenre of fiction that forsakes the traditional short story length, usually ...

A couple years ago, startup publisher Serial Box launched with an aim to publish stories in a slightly different way: tell a longer story by breaking it up into manageable, shorter stories, written by ...

BALTIMORE — I’m at the front door of artist Joseph Young’s house, in the middle of a lovely block in the lovely neighborhood of Hampden. It’s a perfect October day. Instead of a welcome mat, I just ...

In Joseph Young’s parlor, there are words on the ceiling: “They came. They went,” they read. There are words on the computer, the windows, the kitchen cupboard, the bedspread upstairs. Young is a ...

Instituto Cervantes de Manila, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines and the University of the Philippines Diliman, will present “Lo bueno, si breve,” a workshop on ...