When I was in my twenties, my grandparents finally moved out of the house my mother had grown up in. In the attic where we used to sleep as kids, and where my grandfather would come in at bedtime and sing “Goodnight, Irene” to me and my younger brother and sister as we lay in […]
Maine’s beauty and Maine’s menace-inspired debut novel By Robin Clifford Wood When Katie Lattari’s debut thriller was released in September 2021, the book world took notice. The New York Times Book Review called “Dark Things I Adore” “stunning,” It was Barnes and Noble’s Mystery and Thriller Pick of the Month in July of 2022. Over […]
If you had more cooks in the kitchen, you would think they would develop something more creative. But that’s not the case when it comes to country music songwriting, and a new study corroborates what our ears have been telling us for years. As the amount of songwriters per track in country has increased, the […]
Sick co-writer Katelyn Crabb remembers when she realized that screenwriting was a career one could have. “I watched Gladiator when I was 14, and I was like, ‘oh my God, it’s really beautiful. The writing’s really beautiful.’ It was the first time I liked the writing, not just the movie.” Crabb’s mom explained to the […]
Professor Gavin Brown is a psychometrician and a cross-cultural psychologist of assessment at the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland. Education Standardised tests aren’t perfect but they do warn us there is something wrong in our school system. If we don’t like the results, we shouldn’t ignore the test data Opinion: It […]
Persuasive writing is the art of trying to convince others of your point of view using the written word. The goal of it is to persuade someone to do something or think a certain way. While it can use elements of creative and expository writing, it is almost in a category all on its own […]
My Sailor, My Love: James Cosmo and Bríd Brennan in Klaus Härö’s film, shot on Achill Island. At about the same time that a certain Oscar-nominated Martin McDonagh film was shooting on Achill, another, more modestly budgeted project was constructing a very different narrative on the same island. Directed by Klaus Härö, the experienced Finnish […]
David James, editor of the Alaskan literature anthology “Writing on the Edge,” during a signing at Title Wave Books on March 4. James will be at Barnes & Noble in Fairbanks this Saturday from 1 to 3. PHOTO BY Karen Jensen Alaska means different things to different people. A new anthology of 33 Alaska stories, […]
BOSQUE FARMS — The day she wondered if she could take off her seat belt, open the door and jump from a moving car was the day Jean D. Stouffer knew she needed to make a change in her life. She didn’t make that leap, but instead, Stouffer took another leap — one that led […]
