Sarah Leavitt is the author of the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (Skyhorse Publishing, 2012), which is currently in production as a feature-length animation, and the award-winning historical fiction comic Agnes, Murderess (Freehand Books, 2019). She is an assistant professor in the School of Creative Writing at UBC in […]
Nonprofit Kitchen Table Literary Arts celebrates a decade of promoting the prose and poetry of Black women and women of color and helping them blossom and flourish as writers. Photos by Kiran Malik-Khan “We Write Here.” It’s an apt tagline for Kitchen Table Literary Arts (KT), a nonprofit organization located in the Kress Contemporary – […]
During the overcast summer of 1879, in the riverside village of Vétheuil halfway between Paris and Rouen, a restless painter paced his garden, waiting for an hour’s sunshine. When the cloud lifted, he slipped through his gate bordering the Seine, made rapid sketches of the water and the reflections of its grassy islets, and returned […]
In a public relations release credited to the “Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences staff,” we are told that “Stanford Creative Writing revitalizes its vision amid growing demand.” The following text contains a level of spin and obfuscation that would make the most hardened political operative blush. I have ceased to be surprised by shortsighted, […]
September 23, 2024 Online Originals For the show’s 20th anniversary, its co-creator unpacks the origins of the pilot’s most memorable moments. Phil Pirrello Listen now Powered by ReadAlong.ai “There was a 48-hour period where we were dead.” That two-day window in early 2004 that Lost cocreator and coshowrunner Damon Lindelof speaks of is all that […]
Writing Tools is one of the main Apple Intelligence features that’s available in the iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 betas for developers and public beta testers. As the name suggests, Writing Tools are meant to help you write. Apple Intelligence General Feature 2 This guide goes over everything you can do with […]
For much of my childhood in the 1980s, my mother served up Chinese fast food from a stand in a second-rate suburban mall. Her customers were mostly teens from the local high school and elderly regulars who mall-walked throughout winter, which, in Calgary, lasts about five months out of the year. ( 5 Tips on […]
Kristian Nairn in September 2024. Getty Images Hold the door. “Game of Thrones” star Kristian Nairn, best known as the sweet and simple Hodor, spills behind-the-scenes secrets in his new book, “Beyond the Throne: Epic Journeys, Enduring Friendships, Surprising Tales.” “With me being a DJ as well [as an actor], my manager and I would […]
Aisha Abdel Gawad (inset) was named the inaugural Cornerstone Writer in Residence by the Wilton Library in August 2024.. Credit: Library: Jarret Liotta for Wilton Library / Aisha Gawad Inset: Abby Cole Wilton Library ‘s first-ever writer-in-residence, Aisha Abdel Gawad , is drawing considerable public controversy after she refused to take part in a book […]
Close to the beginning of Katherine Packert Burke’s novel Still Life , its protagonist, Edith McAllister, a twenty-nine-year-old trans writer, is asked by friends about her novel-in-progress. She refuses to tell them about it. “It’s not autofiction, is it?” one of them asks. “No,” Edith responds with a snort. She’s lying: she’s writing a barely […]
