John Schu is a best-selling author, a children’s librarian and a tireless evangelist for the power of a blank page. By Elisabeth Egan Elisabeth Egan is an editor at the Book Review and the author of ...

There are questions writers get asked a lot, mainly, “Where do your ideas come from?” “How do you make money?” And my personal least favorite, “Are you going to write about me?” Yet, when I think ...

Summer is winding down, and you know what that means: school is right around the corner. Get ready for your best semester yet with these bookish notebooks for bibliophiles who like to write as much as ...

It wasn’t just an ordinary notebook — it was a brand-new notebook, and it took me a while to understand my appreciation for it. As I watch the yellow buses take to the road each morning and again each ...

In an algorithmic world, notebooking lets us crack open the black boxes of our lives I cannot stop buying books about how to write in notebooks. It’s not that I require instructions. I’ve been doing ...

On January 2, 2014, I wrote on my red Moleskine diary, “Today, I bought a red Parker pen just so I can have something nice to write with on this notebook. I really have to rethink my life choices.” ...