For A.V. Rockwell , A Thousand and One was the result of a lifetime of heartbreak. The movie — her debut feature — is the filmmaker’s response to feeling pushed out, to being overlooked, to never seeing Black women like herself or those around her represented in the breadth of their humanity on-screen. So imagine […]
Gabriel García Márquez in 1990 in Paris, France. His brand of magic realism has been more popular this century with readers in 10 languages than the idealism of Cervantes’ hero Don Quixote. The solitary denizens of Macondo appear to have proved too much for a famously insane knight errant, according to research that shows Gabriel […]
The Writers Guild of America has proposed allowing artificial intelligence to write scripts, as long as it does not affect writers’ credits or residuals. The guild had previously indicated that it would propose regulating the use of AI in the writing process, which has recently surfaced as a concern for writers who fear losing out […]
The following is from Yuri Herrera’s Ten Planets . Born in Actopan, Mexico, Herrera is the author of three novels, including Signs Preceding the End of the World, which was one of the Guardian’s “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” and won the Best Translated Book Award. He teaches at Tulane University in New […]
Author Bijal Vachharajani won the AutHer Awards 2023 in the Best Children’s Literature category for her book ‘Savi and the Memory Keeper’. It is noted that this is the second time that Bijal won the award– she had previously won the AutHer Award in 2019 for her book ‘A Cloud Called Bhura’. In an exclusive […]
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Dede Fox, left, Montgomery County’s Former Poet Laureate and a writer for Writers in the Schools, works with sisters Dara and Rina on writing a short poem as they undergo their treatments at the Texas Children’s Hospital Friday, March 24, 2023 in The Woodlands. […]
Inside a second-floor classroom at the School of Business ’ Beatty Center, students are scrolling through their Instagram feeds. Nothing unusual there – except the fact that they’re projected onto a whiteboard and adjunct instructor Andrew Nelson is commenting on their posts. He advises them to make sure their hashtags are relevant and that they […]
“I hate endings. Just detest them,” said Sam Shepard in an interview with The Paris Review. “Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.” Shepard is hardly alone in his aversion. For writers working in all mediums, ending a work can be the most challenging aspect of the writing […]
“Never mind guessing the solution,” says the British author, whose new book is “Humanly Possible.” “I often can’t understand that solution even when it’s explained at the end.” What books are on your night stand? There are no visible ones, because bed is one of the few places where I read e-books: They are so […]
In the hyper-fast world of film, television and video game development, composers rarely have the chance to live with a project for long periods of time. More often than not, soundtracks are recorded during the final stages of production, and composers are enlisted to turn around their cues within the tightest deadline. A more music-centric […]
