ChatGPT can help you start a novel, but it struggles with memory, structure and long-form storytelling. Here’s why regular ...

Did Publishers Weekly just give away the plot twist in the movie M. Night Shyamalan is filming this summer in Rhode Island? A recent Publishers Weekly Picks column gives the most detailed plot ...

The novel "Remain" is a supernatural romantic whodunit co-written by M. Night Shyamalan and Nicholas Sparks. It follows an architect who falls in love with a woman he believes is a ghost and tries to ...

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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Marisha Pessl about her new book for teens. The idea for the twist-filled thriller "Darkly" came out of her girlhood love of board games. A new novel for teens is like a ...

During one of my more desperate phases as a young novelist, I began to question whether I should actually be writing my own stories. I was deeply uninterested at the time in anything that resembled a ...

The literary landscape of the 21st century seems more and more divided when it comes to one particular aspect: plot. Some books have it; others don’t. The have-nots have gotten a lot of critical ...

Toward the end of “Birnam Wood” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), the latest novel from the New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton, Rosie Demarney, an otherwise minor character, gets a moment in the spotlight.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story reveals plot elements from the novel "Remain," which probably apply to the movie as well. Did Publishers Weekly just give away the plot twist in the movie M. Night Shyamalan ...