Brian Ziff* Bonnie McKee was at one of the lowest, darkest moments of her life when she had a validating experience with Lana Del Rey . The singer approached her at a party in 2019 and held up her phone to show what she had been listening to on her way there: McKee’s 2015 song […]
The Best Limited Series/TV Movie Writing category has 111 submissions on the 2023 Emmys ballot, giving us six nominees this year. With the same number of nominees last year, they were “Dopesick” (“The People vs. Purdue Pharma” by Danny Strong ), “The Dropout” (“I’m in a Hurry” by Elizabeth Meriwether ), “Maid” (“Snaps” by Molly […]
Over the years, some 100 people have translated the entire “Iliad” into English. The latest of them, Emily Wilson, explains what different approaches to one key scene say about the original, and the translators. A scene from the “Iliad.” Each translation suggests a different understanding of its central themes of courage, marriage, fate and death.Credit…John […]
This Apocalypse Brought To Us By 300 Million Dumbasses 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 […]
Shortly after my husband, Brandon, and I began dating, I was shocked to discover his bookshelves housed the same titles I had on mine: Beloved, The Cider House Rules, The Book of Ruth. The books weren’t his. He doesn’t share my passion for reading. They belonged to his late wife. When Brandon and I married […]
As a fiction writer, I’ve always felt compelled, memoir style, to pore over my life’s timeline. But in a novel, I can erase, revise, smash, crash, reconstruct, and transfigure that squiggly narrative. A novel has no obligation to mirror or represent anything familiar, recognizable, or real. And one of the main rules of play is […]
(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 […]
