(TNS) — The advent of artificial intelligence software such as ChatGPT has led to discussions about whether colleges will drop or amend their admissions essay requirements. I asked Atlanta college essay coach Patti Ghezzi for her thoughts on the question. A former journalist who also worked at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ghezzi now works in nonprofit […]
Henri Bosco’s writing is concerned with nature and its influence on human minds. Credit…Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone, via Getty Images THE CHILD AND THE RIVER, by Henri Bosco. Translated by Joyce Zonana. The life and literary career of Henri Bosco spanned two centuries, two world wars, two continents, an empire and its aftermath. Born in 1888 in Avignon, […]
AN OLD STORY tells of a hypothetical traveler lost in a forest who must decide what to do next. The narrator opines that such a person “should not wander about turning this way and that, nor, worse still, stop in one place, but should always walk in as straight a line as they can.” By […]
I FIRST ENCOUNTERED the work of Brandon Shimoda at Commend, a now-shuttered record store in New York’s Lower East Side. Emily Sprague flowed through the speakers, and the air was filled with the scent of palo santo. I drifted through the space, examining small pieces of raku pottery, sifting through a rack of T-shirts. The […]
Photo by Geran de Klerk 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 […]
The following is from Veronica Raimo’s Lost on Me . Raimo is the author of four novels, the most recent of which, Lost On Me (Niente di Vero) was shortlisted for the Premio Strega Prize and won the Strega Off Prize, the Strega Giovani Prize and the Viareggio Rèpaci Prize. Her 2019 novel The Girl […]
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