By Sonia Weiser Aug 3, 2017 | Updated: May 17, 2019, 6:00 PM EDT One key to being a good writer is to always keep reading—and that doesn't stop after you've been published. Here are 26 authors' favorite reads. Who knows, one of these books might become your new favorite. 1. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Central Press/Getty Images Papa Hemingway once said "there is no friend as loyal as a book," and in a 1935 piece published in Esquire, he laid out a list of a few friends he said he would

By April Snellings Jun 24, 2022 Before there were new-fangled conveniences like cursed phone numbers and sinister Kleenex commercials, people had to make do with plain old cursed books. You never knew what genre they might be lurking in—there were the obvious possibilities, like grimoires and other magical texts, but stories of curses have also been attached to novels, encyclopedias, historiographies, and even poetry collections. But considering their relative scarcity, your