Greg Bellow, AB’66, AM’68, reclaims his acclaimed father, novelist Saul Bellow, X’39, from those who would adopt him as their own.

A distinguished career at the New York Times prepared Leslie Maitland, AB’75, for reporting a deeply personal story.

Researching her mother’s story of wartime flight and lost love, a journalist finds the truth richer and stranger than any fiction.

Dana Norris, AM’03, explains what makes Story Club Chicago’s premier open mic.

Freelance writer Anne Ford, AM’99, creator of Chicagoans, explains why people are fascinating—until they start telling you what they think.

Many humanities graduates want to get published. This crew decided to become publishers.

Businessman John Kuhns turned his winding career path into a novel.

Scenes from a writing workshop with Wade Rouse.

The pitfalls of writing, from a junior thesis to a Star Trek history.

The Gettysburg Address is short, to the point, and simple to memorize. But rhetoric and meaning combine in a way that makes Lincoln’s speech far more easy to admire than to duplicate.