Day: June 29, 2023

Adapting to AI: Schools look to enact new policy as essay-writing tech grows in popularity

Reading Time: 1 Min. 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 […]

‘How We Do It,’ a collection of essays on the craft of writing, speaks directly to Black writers

Reading Time: 1 Min. 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 Pleasure of Taking the Long Way: On Puzzling the Route to a Poem

Reading Time: 1 Min. 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 […]

‘The Great Gatsby’ Review: Raising a Glass to an American Tragedy

Reading Time: 1 Min. 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 […]

Will Children Save Us at the End of the World?

Reading Time: 1 Min. 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 […]

Citing ‘Yellowface’ Novel, White Author Defends Writing Japanese Historical Fantasy

Reading Time: 1 Min. 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 […]

Big Songs, Big Emotions: On Glee, Santana’s Coming Out Scene, and Naya Rivera

Reading Time: 1 Min. 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 […]