How does one make a life as a writer? So much about it is unknowable: How do you put words in the right order so that they reveal something essential, but not in an annoying way? How do you keep your tenses straight? How do you make money ? Do I need to have at […]
UChicago faculty member Ling Ma’s first book “ Severance ” (2018) received multiple accolades and funding, including the Kirkus Prize , the Whiting Award and the New York Library Young Lions Fiction Award as well earning her a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her second book, “ Bliss Montage ,” (2022) has […]
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“When I write plays, I hope that they’re useful,” confesses “Cost of Living” playwright Martyna Majok . “I write them partly to feel less alone myself. And I hope that in going to the theater and experiencing it, that people can feel less alone in their circumstances.” She won the Pultizer Prize for drama for […]
The cover of Margie Patlak’s ‘More than Meets the Eye’ In a new book of essays, a part-time Maine resident takes a unique approach to dealing with a personal loss. Rather than viewing her memories only through the lens of the past, both past and present are equals in her effort to make sense of […]
Sometimes I hear teachers and students talk about poetry as if the only purpose for writing a poem is to bare your soul, to go deep and dark; this illuminates another reason why poetry can be such an uncomfortable genre for teachers and students to approach in class. “I just feel funny asking kids to […]
With Feist set to release her latest album Multitudes, Uncut sits down for a Q&A session with the Canadian singer-songwriter. Peter Gabriel is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut Your daughter’s birth and your father’s passing clearly had a profound effect on your life in countless respects. What was it like coming […]
