The summer before sixth grade, I used to play dead in pools. I waded into the shallow end, and then I fell forward, and then I’d hang, sagging toward the bottom. The sun warmed my neck around my ...

The reader is hooked. Think Philip Marlowe eyeing the glamorous blonde seated in his ratty office chair, knowing he should run for his life, knowing that he won't.

With Smee turned into a mother, Peter’s nemesis, Captain Hook, is all the more emphatically a terrifying father figure. As in the original, Hook fears being devoured by a crocodile that has a ...

Narrative hook The narrative hook is an idea or suggestion in a story that grabs the reader’s attention right from the start. What hooks one person, of course, may not appeal to another.

The Personal Touch: Using Anecdotes to Hook a Reader It isn’t as easy to pull off as it might seem.

An adaptation of Miller’s 1950 screenplay about a Red Hook longshoreman’s killing gets its first American staging aboard the Waterfront Museum.

A first issue has one goal that should be placed above all others: hook the reader. It is your introduction to a new story and an invitation to come back for more. Despite floating a vaguely ...

Alex Jones spent years accusing the family members of Sandy Hook shooting victims of being actors in a hoax and suggesting that their children were still alive.