Photo by Suzanne D. Williams on Unsplash Electric Literature recently launched a new creative nonfiction program, and received 500 submissions in just 36 hours! Now we need your help to grow our team, carefully and efficiently review submitted work, and further establish EL as a home for artful and urgent nonfiction. We’ve set a goal […]
AI is growing in everyday use, especially with the introduction of products like ChatGPT. It’s a way to write something like an essay in seconds with the work being done for you. (Credit: CanvaPro) LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — The introduction of Artificial Intelligence into our culture this year has brought a new evolution in how […]
Books about writing are a genre all their own, but books on how to write well almost exclusively default to the perspective of the white and cisgender experience of making books. The most popular and well-known books on craft have been from non-Black authors, from Natalie Goldberg’s 1986 classic, “Writing Down the Bones,” to the […]
In so many ways, the things we have to do in our lives have to be done right. So much seems to be about speed, utter clarity, and efficiency. I am bored by all of that exactness. Perhaps this is one of the reasons poetry is so appealing. It’s a time of extreme permission—at least […]
There ain’t no party like a Jay Gatsby party — in “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s debonair poster boy of American ambition and the nouveau riche never lets the festivities stop. Neither does Immersive Everywhere’s “The Great Gatsby: The Immersive Show,” a jovial feast for the senses that never, in its lagging two-and-a-half-hour running […]
Pedro Pascal, left, and Bella Ramsey in a scene from the series “The Last of Us” (2023-present).Credit…Liane Hentscher/HBO The noxious orange smoke that descended over New York this month reminded me of a parlor game I used to play with my husband: Would we have what it takes to survive the apocalypse? We abruptly stopped […]
Diversity and representation are important in media, as we frequently highlight here at The Mary Sue . However, analyzing the privilege white writers have when telling stories about cultures and races that are not their own is equally important. Photographer and Writer Natalie Jacobsen (not the television anchor) recently announced her debut novel, a “Samurai […]
Ali Adler, a TV writer who had come off Josh Schwartz’s show Chuck , would quickly learn firsthand just how exhilarating and emotional it was to be a writer on Glee . The day of Adler’s interview with Brad Falchuk, she was reeling from a breakup, had just moved out of her girlfriend’s house, and […]
Picketers outside NBC Studios in Manhattan on Wednesday With music thumping and marchers dancing, the mood was upbeat at the Latine Salon picket staged Wednesday by members of the Writers Guild of America outside NBC Studios in Manhattan. But the collective’s main speaker wanted to be clear on something. “This is a really, really tough […]
Picketers outside NBC Studios in Manhattan on Wednesday With music thumping and marchers dancing, the mood was upbeat at the Latine Salon picket staged Wednesday by members of the Writers Guild of America outside NBC Studios in Manhattan. But the collective’s main speaker wanted to be clear on something. “This is a really, really tough […]
