Author portraits

Learn the basics to ensure your author headshot boosts your brand and impresses readers and media professionals alike.

One of my favorite things about skulking around old bookstores is the possibility of chancing upon a first edition of a beloved author’s early work and looking at it in its original context—n…

There are as many different author photos as there are authors (naturally), but if you look at a lot of them, as I do in my line of work, you begin to notice some trends. Some are good. Some are pe…

Tattoo artist working on sketches at her desk. She is in her studio working on her tablet. She is smiling at camera.

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Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri decided to learn Italian. Then she moved to Rome and stopped writing in English altogether. Her new memoir, ‘In Other Words,’ is an account of that linguistic pilgrimage—and her newfound freedom