Plot twists: layers of writing and editing mean a writer mightn’t always be sure what made the cut and what didn’t. Photograph: iStock/Getty Writers will write a book. And rewrite. And edit, polish and publish. After which a strange thing often happens: they forget. They forget details – characters’ names, ages, places. They might even […]
Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images “I found myself spending so much time looking for cheating that I missed the most important aspect of my grading: the ideas that students were actually coming up with,” writes Matthew Fulford. First Person is where Chalkbeat features personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others thinking and writing about […]
Redditors have proven that artificial intelligence can never truly replace real writers after they succeeded in getting a news site to publish an AI-written article on a fake character they invented for World of Warcraft . This is just one of many examples of individuals proving that AI cannot replicate the creativity and accuracy of […]
The following is from Ben Purkert’s debut novel The Men Can’t Be Saved . Purkert is the author of the poetry collection For the Love of Endings . His work appears in The New Yorker, the Nation, and the Kenyon Review, among others. He is the founder of Back Draft, a Guernica interview series focused […]
Tomas and Martin are a married couple. They live in Paris, where Tomas is a film director – comes home one morning after a cast party with an unconvincing explanation that leads to a confession. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, “PASSAGES”) FRANZ ROGOWSKI: (As Tomas) You know what I was doing last night? BEN WHISHAW: (As Martin) […]
Tomas and Martin are a married couple. They live in Paris, where Tomas is a film director – comes home one morning after a cast party with an unconvincing explanation that leads to a confession. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, “PASSAGES”) FRANZ ROGOWSKI: (As Tomas) You know what I was doing last night? BEN WHISHAW: (As Martin) […]
Disney’s Illusion Island is a new platforming adventure game featuring The Fab Four—Mikey Mouse, Minnie, Donald Duck, and Goofy. Players will experience a Metroidvania – style platformer full of interactive abilities, colorful maps, and more. Those who want to experience Dlala Studios’ newest title can get a copy now on Switch. Recently, Game Rant had […]
THE BODY REMEMBERS; the road remembers—everything reminds us of everything. Two Open Doors in a Field (2023), Sophie Klahr’s captivating second collection of poems, serves as a travelogue of the heart and mind, with each poem offering a postcard or snapshot of memories evoked by absence, presence, and emptiness. “Between 2015 and 2018,” Klahr’s endnote […]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Reading’ is a chapter from Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 book Walden; or, Life in the Woods . The book details Thoreau’s decision to leave behind modern civilisation and live a simple life in the woods in Massachusetts. In ‘Reading’, Thoreau laments the fact that his fellow citizens of Concord […]
Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images “I found myself spending so much time looking for cheating that I missed the most important aspect of my grading: the ideas that students were actually coming up with,” writes Matthew Fulford. First Person is where Chalkbeat features personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others thinking and writing about […]
