To reach his books, my father had to exit our home, down the small one-step cement porch, under the mulberry tree that left purple splotches on our dirt driveway, and walk to the side of our house that was three different colors from all the peeling paint, everything chipped anemic blues and grays. There, behind […]
Adrienne Su is an author and professor of creative writing at Dickinson College. She wrote “Living Quarters,” the FOX43 Book Club’s January read. CARLISLE, Pa. — They say to teach what you know—a message author Adrienne Su takes to heart. When she’s not in the classroom, Su can be found working on her collections of […]
“Saturday Night Live” writing team Please Don’t Destroy and host Dakota Johnson ripped each other apart in a video sketch Saturday night. They opened cordially enough, with Johnson walking into the trio’s office as they worked on writing this week’s show. She carried a drink — possibly coffee, though with the slams to come, it […]
‘Feelings of intense shame, a hallmark of this illness, mean people will often hide their pulling, even when it becomes debilitating’: Adele Dumont, author of the book The Pulling. When I began to pull my hair out as a teenager, I didn’t conceive of it as a problem, let alone as an illness. It didn’t […]
IN THE OPENING scenes of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things (2023), a slender, dark-haired woman in Victorian dress leaps into a large body of water to end her life. Against her will, she is rescued and reanimated. This heroine, we learn, is Bella Baxter (Emma Stone): a despairing wife turned Bride of Frankenstein, whose body has […]
The artist Suzanne Bocanegra has many stories to tell, and not just her own: her installations, sculptural assemblages, and performance pieces often unpack other artists’ work (she once sewed tiny cotton replicas of all the aprons from Jean-François Millet’s peasant paintings) or feature appearances by fellow-creators. She’s particularly interested in women working—and women in trouble. […]
Guest Columnist Some books have to be written all alone on your couch in the middle of the night so no one sees you fall apart while you write. And some you have to draft in a coffee shop in broad daylight so your material, mined from trauma, doesn’t kill you without witnesses present. In […]
Celia Reissig is pleased that Stanza Books in Beacon stocks her 2020 collection of poems and a one-act play, Huella/Traces . Celia Reissig at Stanza Books in Beacon Where to shelve it might prove challenging because the paperback has Reissig’s poems in Spanish, English and Spanglish, with no translations. They reflect her voyages from country […]
Ruaridh Mollica in Sebastian. In Sebastian, Max leads a double life as a writing student and a sex worker, using his experiences for material. The film explores the themes of identity, intimacy, and shame in the context of Max’s dual existence. Sebastian is equally critical of the literary world and highlights the blurred lines between […]
David Hemingson attends the 2024 National Board of Review Gala in New York City. (Credit: Theo Wargo/Getty Images) David Hemingson always tempers his expectations while writing. In his nearly 30 years of working in TV, he’s come to expect that whatever episode gets produced from his teleplays is going to be “two or three steps […]
