“What’s a book you love with all your heart?” As I contemplated, post-Christmas, how to decorate the windows of the bookstore I own, this is the question I began to repeat to myself. I had settled on ...

Even after doing research in Montana, a draft of the book that became “The Heart in Winter” was “dead on the page,” he says. Back in Ireland, the runaway lovers now at its center “suddenly appeared to ...

Almost half a century after Stephen King first published his post-apocalyptic epic The Stand, readers still have fair criticisms to make about the ending. Despite it being one of his masterpieces, The ...