Most writing that appears seamless likely has been stitched, unstitched, and stitched again.

Nicholas Delbanco celebrates award-winning U-M authors, some of whom transformed creative writing theses into best-selling books.

Visionary, iconoclast, eccentric. What does ‘original’ really mean — and from where does originiality originate?

Novelist Nicholas Delbanco asserts that no book is ever finished, but rather ‘relinquished.’

Novelist Nicholas Delbanco pens an ode to readers’ pulp-and-paper Shangri-La: the bookstore.

Nicholas Delbanco packs up his personal library and opens the chapter to a new era in life.

Nicholas Delbanco reflects on a plague confounding artists across the ages: the risk of repetition.

Nicholas Delbanco illustrates how language that once seemed transgressive is now quite routine.

Novelist Nicholas Delbanco examines our changing language, letter by letter.