How does humor writing happen? Spend a year with columnist Ernie Witham as he finds the humorous side of family, travel, work avoidance, and, sometimes, work while always following his funny bone. Ernie spends every day thinking about humor, searching for humor, and writing humor. His writing life a...

Ethan Baum leaves his broken marriage, his failed romance, and his overbearing father, a famous philosopher, back East and heads out to New Mexico, where he hopes to make a fresh start and end the writer's block that has halted his once promising career as a novelist. Once in Albuquerque, he loses h...

This collection of poems has a unifying theme: the acting profession. Under that umbrella are many, many subcategories of associated subject matter: the nuts-and-bolts how-to for the wood-be star; a survival guide for frustration, poverty, and bruised ego; a celebration of the thrill and passion of ...