Getty Images for IMDb Paul Simms , the writer behind ”Late Night With David Letterman” and the first three seasons of HBO’s “The Larry Sanders Show,” will receive the Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence in recognition of his decades-long commitment to creating transformative content and mentoring budding screenwriters. “Atlanta” creator Donald Glover is presenting […]
“For a human, burstiness looks like it goes all over the place. It has sudden spikes and sudden bursts,” says Edward Tian, a Princeton student who developed an AI-writing detection app. For a machine-written essay, the graph looks “boring.” (traffic_analyzer/Getty Images) When humans write, they leave subtle signatures that hint at the prose’s fleshy, brainy […]
Writing a character in a novel is a mystery to me. But a poem? A character in a poem has no deus ex machina in the last line. The poet is left at the end of a poem with an ambitious question: Was it worth it? The line structure, the meter, the cadence of thought, […]
