Sue Johnson, founder of Emotionally Focused Therapy, was an English-born Canadian psychologist who believed in the value of emotional dependence in both romantic and parental relationships. Sue Johnson, a British-born Canadian clinical psychologist and best-selling author who developed a novel method of couples therapy based on emotional attachment, challenging what had been the dominant behavioral […]
I haven’t stopped thinking about I Saw the TV Glow , the new A24 film from writer/director Jane Schoenbrun, since seeing it over the weekend. It’s one of the best movies of the year (I scream-cried in the car on the way home) and while I think it’s best seen with as little context as […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept confined to science fiction; it’s here, and it’s changing the way we write. While the rise of AI writing tools has created both excitement and apprehension, one thing is clear: AI is not here to replace us but to collaborate with us. Let’s discuss a new […]
For a few years now I’ve been teaching a class on erotic writing. Most of it follows the same structure of any creative-writing class—we discuss character and motivation—but the content, you can imagine, takes on a different slant. It’s both a fun and hard class to teach; hard because the students are immediately thrown into […]
