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Kristen Arnett, k.d. lang, Myriam Gurba and 10 more on Rita Mae Brown’s breakthrough novel about lesbian identity, published 50 years ago this fall.

The PEN World Voices Festival will bring together hundreds of writers, among them Abdulrazak Gurnah, Alejandro Zambra and Gary Shteyngart, and will include an address by Andrey Kurkov, a Ukrainian novelist.

Authors including Paul Auster, Gay Talese, Kiran Desai and others reminded the Midtown crowd that without free expression, “literature is nothing but an echo chamber.”

Stephen King, David Sedaris, Carmen Maria Machado and others on how Shirley Jackson’s eerie classic first got under their skin.

The Soviet regime killed a generation of literary artists in the 1930s. Their legacy is being reclaimed as Ukraine fights to preserve its cultural heritage.

Three authors discuss their new novels and what brought them to write about a young woman in trouble, three brothers from Staten Island and an anxious parrot.

Bookshelves, typewriters, pills and booze: Writing spaces can evoke romance, glamour and despair at once.

As “Carrie” turns 50, George R.R. Martin, Sissy Spacek, Tom Hanks, the Archbishop of Canterbury and others recall the powerful impact the writer’s work has had on their lives.

Sloane Crosley’s apartment was robbed. Then her friend died. The only sensible thing to do was write about how it felt — and still feels.

In her feminist historical thriller, Sarah Penner avoided sedate avenues to a different time.