There’s no denying it, teaching writing can be daunting. Now add to that the challenge of disengaged students – or worse, students that don’t even want to go to school – and it becomes an impossible task. Yet according to AERO CEO, Dr Jenny Donovan: “Writing is the foundation skill that students require to understand […]
Note: Ruta Sepetys will discuss her book ‘You: The Story’ in conversation with Katie McDougall, Co-Founder and Co-Director of The Porch on Saturday, July 15 at 10:30 a.m. at the Museum as part of the TN Writers | TN Stories: Author Talks at the State Museum series, presented in partnership with Humanities Tennessee, Chapter 16 […]
Taking some cues from the Marx Brothers, the Mael Brothers have remained rooted in all manners Sparks . With Ron’s stone-faced Charles Chaplin-like facade and Russell’s flamboyantly delivered falsetto, the pair channel the essence of the early 20th-century sibling comedy troupe. More than 50 years since the release of their eponymous 1971 debut, the Maels […]
THR Illustration / Adobe Stock This is part of a series of frank accounts of the strike from Hollywood writers at different levels in their careers. I guess the AMPTP forgot the first lesson privileged parents quickly learn: Do not short-change The Nanny. Carol Lombardini did just that, and now SAG-AFTRA will strike . First, […]
On a summer night twenty-nine years ago Mark, my then boyfriend and now husband, and I were in our second-floor apartment. Mark was ironing a week’s worth of dress shirts for his job as a clinical psychologist at a well-known psychiatric hospital. The windows were open, and the shades were up. A cheap portable radio […]
My favorite writing, to read and to make, is about the abjection of desire. In books, I want sex that’s needy, greedy, lonely, pathetically succumbent to the allness of nothingness, sad, icky, and bad. I want all the ways that fucking can be fucked up. Many standards of this sort—Kathy Acker, Samuel R. Delaney, Mary […]
