Home » Uncategorized » Pierre Saint-Amand celebrates Robert Harrison: “a mix of rock’n’roll and oracular antiquity” « Cheers to the man whose name is a rhyme! Poetry champion Mike Peich turns 80! On April 19, Stanford celebrated the remarkable and many-faceted career of Professor Robert Pogue Harrison , Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature in […]
Being a mother, for me, has had the effect of raising the ceiling on most feelings. My children (now eleven and seven years old) have carried me to new heights of hilarity and joy, but in the midst of these feelings I’m aware too of their corollary: the understanding, which arrived suddenly right after each […]
The other day I had a friend, someone who knows my work, and who even works in education-adjacent spaces ask, “Have you written anything about that ChatGPT stuff?” Have I? It seems like that’s all I’ve been writing about, to the point where I purposefully go looking for any other topic for this space these […]
Hello, readers! I’m your host, Kristen Arnett, advice columnist (and Dad) extraordinaire. I’m excited to welcome you back to yet another special episode of Am I the Literary Asshole? , an advice column that asks if “head empty, just vibes” is simply a nice way of describing a hangover. My head? Empty. But the vibes? […]
The question of whether to attend a college reunion is often met with mixed emotions—nostalgia, curiosity, a healthy dose of apprehension. What will it feel like to go back to the campus of our youth? How will our lives compare to our classmates’? Which parts of our old selves might get dredged up? If a […]
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 […]
Ben Whishaw in “Bluets” at the Royal Court Theater in London. When the Royal Court Theater in London announced it was staging an adaptation of Maggie Nelsons’ prose poem memoir “Bluets,” my first reaction was head-scratching surprise. This largely plotless book, in which elliptical fragments of autobiography are entwined with meditations on the cultural history […]
