10,000 hours. That’s how long, at least according to author Malcolm Gladwell, it’s supposed to take to master a craft. Or, if you’re an AI a matter of months, weeks, or days. When I read that is now such an adept writer it’s on Amazon’s self-publishing service, I experienced a mini freakout. To be clear, […]
Author Karen Rose and her book “Cold Blooded Liar.” Florida author Karen Rose will make a virtual appearance at Warwick’s on Thursday to promote her new book: “Cold Blooded Liar” In another life, Karen Rose would have been a travel writer. At one point in her life, working as a chemical engineer, she says she […]
How did you come up with the title for this poem? Were there other titles you thought about? When “What even is a blockchain/an NFT?” was the subject of conversation everywhere you went, I got interested in the technology’s claim that it creates an “immutable record” of each transaction along the chain of a digital […]
Many writers struggle to find their form: the genre in which they feel most free and productive — most themselves. Will Schwalbe once planned to be a playwright. His mentors included Larry Kramer (best known for his autobiographical play “The Normal Heart”) and Robert Chapman (the Harvard professor who helped bring “Billy Budd” to Broadway […]
CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio – Chagrin Falls Intermediate and High School students competed in the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition hosted by the Cleveland Institute of Art, with 6 students (Kate Bartlett, Samantha Holtz, Oakleigh Neithhammer, Charles Taylor, Chole Nightwine, and Claire Rubin) advancing to the national finals held in New York City. Select artists and […]
An excerpt from I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai, recommended by Steph Opitz Introduction by Steph Opitz A few confessions: I listened to Serial’s first season as it was released. (My husband and I would race home from our offices in Austin, Texas to listen to the podcast together. We’d shake our […]
Chatbots can’t think outside the box, unleashing even more nonsense filler words onto the world. A few weeks ago, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, sent an email to the newsroom about clichés. To paraphrase: He wanted us to try harder to avoid them because nobody comes to the website or the print magazine […]
‘The man who wrote Quantumania is writing Avengers: Kang Dynasty’: Marvel Fans Demand MCU Change Avengers 5 Writer Jeff Loveness after Ant-Man 3 Disaster 1 The first installation in the new Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe commenced four days ago with the release of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. While there have been […]
The rise of widely available, easy-to-use artificial intelligence tools is creating a new genre of robot-generated literature. Amazon already offers over 200 books (and climbing) with ChatGPT listed as an author or co-author. The reasons for people to “write” these books vary. Some authors were previously discouraged by the time and effort to write a […]
The news that changes have been made to the works of best-selling children’s author Roald Dahl has been met with anger from leading writers, including Booker prizewinner Salman Rushdie , who branded the changes “absurd censorship.” Dahl, who died in 1990 at age 76, was the creator of characters such as Matilda, the BFG, Fantastic […]
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