An instruction manual tells the reader how to complete a task. Sometimes writing is used to tell us how to do things, like in an instruction or a manual. This alien wants to build a deck chair.

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B ook bans are skyrocketing in America, finds a new report from PEN America, a non-profit organization that champions free ...

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The latest from the chronicler of urban grit known for “Lush Life” and “Clockers” — as well as writing on “The Wire” TV series — is set in 2008 in East Harlem, where a five-story ...

But it’s when “writing a book” is merely the next thing on the celebrity tick-list that it really grates. I saw a TV interview with a celeb who had a book out a year or so ago, who didn’t ...

Lyn Lear is currently compiling all of Norman Lear’s most memorable quotes and philosophies about life for a book that she hopes to publish in the next year. “Norman had written his memoirs ...