Jason Reitman is on a barnstorming tour for Saturday Night , telling everyone about his amazing week in 2008 as an SNL guest writer. Guest writer? How does that work exactly? Do you book a session like an Airbnb? Does Lorne Michaels bring you in like a lecturer in Copenhagen? Turns out Reitman isn’t alone […]
Wisconsin author Laura Anne Bird (left) shares her novels with WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” host Kate Archer Kent before an interview in Madison. Wisconsin author Laura Anne Bird grew up reading voraciously, but she missed seeing her home state reflected in pages of the books she gobbled up. “To be able to say, ‘I live there’ […]
Introduction by Halimah Marcus Share article Oct 7, 2024 Issue No 647 The Life of a Muse Is No Life at All Written by Alysandra Dutton Recommended by Halimah Marcus Reading “Sophy” by Alysandra Dutton, art history majors and avid museum goers may recognize John Everett Millais, a founder of the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and his […]
Photo by Thomas Franke via Unsplash There’s nothing more delicate than a line. In the world of my Triple Sonnets, my lines consist of approximately ten syllables each, mimicking our natural speaking pattern of saying ten syllables and then pausing. I love the tightness of this line—how plot, conceit, and yes, romance , are brought […]
