If you are looking for ways to improve your writing both for pleasure and business you might be interested to know that a wealth of tools are available at your disposal. Google DeepMind’s AI studio has made Gemini 1.5, a powerful tool that uses artificial intelligence to study literature in depth. This guide will show […]
Credit…Rebecca Clarke That kids’ classic “completely changed my life,” says the former football star, now the University of Colorado’s “Coach Prime.” His new book is “Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field.” Credit…Rebecca Clarke Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). Peace! I need my peace. I usually […]
Credit…Carlo Giambarresi WOLF AT THE TABLE by Adam Rapp It is not uncommon for novelists to deal with speculation about how much of their own lives makes its way into their fiction. The typical response is to deflect, with some version of how we are in all our books, and leave it at that. Adam […]
I met Allie Tanner in November of 2016 at the Brooklyn reading series Franklin Park. The first words she ever said to me were “Are you okay?” (I was. I used to call the raffle at Franklin Park, and felt that microphones were for cowards, so I did not use them.) We’ve been together for […]
“My job as a parent isn’t over until your book gets published,” my father said, years ago. I don’t remember the circumstances of this statement—where we were, what we were doing. I want to say it had something to do with his body, maybe the deterioration of his lungs to COPD, his breathing so labored […]
There has been one single experience that taught me more about storytelling than anything else in my life: telling bedtime stories to my children. Live audiences can be merciless; ask any comedian. Workshopping fiction can be rough, too. But I’d submit that while your own children won’t heckle you or carve up your prose with […]
Molly Brodak was a poet, baker and memoirist who died in 2020. MOLLY , by Blake Butler The first sign that “Molly” is not going to be a typical memoir arrives on Page 20. That’s when the author, Blake Butler, finds himself on his hands and knees in agony beside his wife, whose body he […]
Worry by Alexandra Tanner BIG SISTERS ARE bullies. Big sisters have trauma. Big sisters are tired. They’ve been diagnosed with “eldest daughter syndrome” —for which there is no known cure. Are you the eldest daughter of an immigrant household or are you normal? Take it from a certain corner of the internet and big sisters […]
Credit…Michela Buttignol Our columnist reviews saucy new books by Rebecca Ross, Rebekah Weatherspoon and Felicia Grossman. Credit…Michela Buttignol Olivia Waite is the Book Review’s romance fiction columnist. She writes queer historical romance, fantasy and critical essays on the genre’s history and future. March 24, 2024Updated 9:22 a.m. ET Romantasy loves to gild its protagonists with […]
You could easily miss this long article with the long title, “Writer, podcaster “Robert Harrison challenges A.I. brain delusion, the Humanities’ deathbed and Fear & Loathing with the Love Bots .” I wouldn’t pass it up I were you. Scott Thomas Anderson has a conversation with Robert Pogue Harrison , Stanford’s leading humanist and Dante […]
