Piinaavassa kauhuelokuvassa rikoskirjailija Ellison muuttaa perheineen idylliseen omakotitaloon, jonka vanhat asukit kokivat karmaisevan kohtalon perheen nuorimmaisen kadottua samalla mystisesti. Kun Ellison löytää ullakoltaan peltilaatikollisen kaitafilmejä äärimmäisen brutaaleista vuosikymmenien takaisista veriteoista, havahtuu kirjailija olevansa keskellä toistuvaa ja selittämätöntä painajaista. Menneet murhat motiiveineen alkavat hahmottua kauhistuneelle kirjailijalle ja pahuuden ympäröimä perhe joutuu tilanteeseen, josta ei ole paluuta. Nähtyäsi hänet, et ole enää turvassa.

Heillä on johtolankoja. Heillä on uhri. Mutta missä on tappaja? Nick Curranille, otteensa menettäneelle, pulloon turhan usein turvautuvalle kytälle juttu alkaa tavallisena murhajuttuna, mutta muuttuu vähitellen joksikin paljon pahaenteisemmäksi. Pääepäilty on Catherine Tramell, rikas ja vaarallisen viettelevä kirjailija, jonka oudoilla kuvitelluilla murhilla on ikävä tapa toteutua. Curranin vaisto kehottaa häntä pysymään kaukana naisesta, mutta jokin vetää häntä vastustamattomalla tavalla naisen puoleen. Mitä lähemmäksi Nickiä Catherine pääsee, sitä voimakkaammin ja mielivaltaisemmin hän tätä ohjailee. Lopulta Nick huomaa joutuneensa epätoivoisille harhateille manipuloinnin, intohimon ja murhan syövereihin.

Emma, a French novelist aged 27, decide to go to Berlin and join a brothel to uncover the prostitution world, the subject of her new book. Such as gonzo journalism, Emma become a prostitute and her experience, which was supposed to last a few weeks, will last two years. Was writing her book an excuse for Emma to live a shameful fantasy?

Sibyl, a jaded psychotherapist, returns to her first passion: writing. But her newest patient Margot, a troubled up-and-coming actress, proves to be a source of inspiration that is far too tempting. Fascinated almost to the point of obsession, Sibyl becomes more and more involved in Margot’s tumultuous life, reviving volatile memories that bring her face to face with her past.

Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic at a national magazine and he is a successful, though unfulfilled, hip-hop record company executive. Both come to realize that their true life passions will only be fulfilled by remembering what they learned that day on the corner.

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.

Maggien suunnitelma hankkia lapsi yksinään joutuu sivuraiteelle, kun hän tapaa Johnin, naimisissa olevan miehen. Kolme vuotta myöhemmin Maggie huomaa, että hän ei enää rakasta Johnia ja että itse asiassa John ja hänen entinen vaimonsa ovat kuin luodut toisilleen...

On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.

The story of the making of The Bell Jar, the unique, semi-autobiographical novel written by American writer Sylvia Plath (1932-63), published in February 1963, shortly before her death.

Imogen Sayre is given an ultimatum by her publisher to write a sequel to her one best selling novel or not be signed to a new book deal. Imogen must overcome mental and supernatural forces to write this book and salvage her career.

An in-depth look at the torturous process of writing a novel from an artist who echoes Henry David Thoreau by living in the wilderness to create inspiration.

At his Long Island beach house, and on the occasion of the publication of his masterful nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, reporter Karen Dennison interviews celebrated writer Truman Capote, who displays his exuberant personality, makes witty jokes, shares his thoughts on writing, reflects on various aspects of the book and, in a sweet and endearing voice, reads and explains some of its highlights.

Lennie is starting her first novel, finally striking out and taking her first step to her ambitions while keeping her relationship and social life afloat. Rosie and Lennie have been dating a while and now their relationship is becoming strained and imbalanced. The more Lennie writes the more she learns about herself and her relationship.

“Would you like to hear a story?” From his cozy library inside the walls of a suburban home an intellectual snail tells of his life’s love, loss and change.