“Marvel ruins Daredevil with sh*tty quips, terrible writing”: Fans React to Marvel Announcing Daredevil: Born Again Official Release Date 1 Marvel Studios announced their plans for an original series about Daredevil which will see Charlie Cox reprising his role in the titular character during last year’s SDCC. Daredevil is a classic series that originally came […]
Edith Wharton’s house, The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts. Margaret Helminska, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. I work in a blue-chip gallery, and it’s not unusual that I’m asked if I grew up in Newport when I say that I’m from Rhode Island. It often feels like a loaded question, more social barometer than casual inquiry, […]
Somewhere in a faraway village of a war-torn nation lived a boy who dreamt of joining the military to fight against those who wronged him and his family. To achieve that dream, he left home at a young age, but his background and age created hurdles along the way, as they always had. The above […]
It’s hard not to enjoy the beloved book, “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr. Seuss! To celebrate this rhythmic tale, we’ve curated a delightful collection of 38 unique writing prompts that will ignite your students’ imaginations and bring their creativity to life. Each prompt is designed to encourage critical thinking, reflection, and the exploration of […]
The following is from Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos . Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. New Directions publishes her books The Old Child & Other Stories, The End of Days, The Book of Words , and Visitation , which NPR called “a story of the century as seen by the objects we’ve known and […]
This year marks the 125th anniversary of one of the most influential ghost stories ever written. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is a novella of shadows, lurking dread and psychological menace. The story is deceptively simple: a vulnerable, highly sensitive young woman takes the position of governess at Bly, a remote manor […]
In 1986, Nora Ephron published in the New York Times an amusing essay on revision that ended in an exhortation: “Revise now, before it’s too late.” I am approximately the same age now as Ephron was then (she had gone from being a newspaper journalist to essayist to—at the time—screenplay writer; I have gone from […]
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