Christopher Vogler, author of The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, on the parallels between the writing process and the hero’s narrative.
Mary Jo Bang has developed a reputation as a poet’s poet by facing the hardest truths about human beings. Maybe that’s why she had so much fun translating Dante’s “Inferno.”
Hilary Mantel’s books “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies” have reshaped how we think of Henry VIII — and made a hero out of the blacksmith’s son, Thomas Cromwell.
