Joseph Moldover is a writer and clinical psychologist who lives and works in Massachusetts. His debut novel, Every Moment After , was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2019. His short fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency , Stonecoast Review , MonkeyBicycle , One Teen Story , Typehouse , The MacGuffin , and elsewhere. […]
As Mike Fu’s novel Masquerade progresses, his protagonist Meadow Liu’s day-to-day becomes increasingly haunted. While digging around a friend’s sublet for something, he finds a book entitled The Masquerade from early 1930s Shanghai written by a man whose Chinese name is eerily similar to Meadow’s (Liu Tian). As the Fu’s novel continues, the line blurs […]
Bruce-Lee_-Defying-Stereotypes_-and-the-Catharsis-of-Writing | BookTrib. Most writers embark on projects with a clear sense of what they want to say, often revisiting familiar characters, themes and settings. When my publisher agreed to launch Johnny Delivers , a standalone sequel to the award-winning Letters From Johnny , they likely had no idea of the deeper struggles I had […]
As a mother, I love reading fun whimsical stories that send my kids to sleep with warm, happy thoughts in mind. However, as an author and illustrator, I love seeing a variety of stories and like being able to sneak in little life lessons into our reading time. ( How to Tap Into Vulnerability and […]
A UC Berkeley researcher pitted hundreds of humans against generative AI platforms. Humans wrote more creative stories, but AI is advancing — quickly. UC Berkeley researcher Nina Beguš instructed both humans and AI tools to write a story based on one of two short prompts. She then compared the results, finding that humans still had […]
The National Bunraku Theatre, in New York recently for the first time in more than thirty years, presented an evening of suicides. The performance, at the Japan Society, consisted of excerpts from two of the company’s most celebrated productions. In the Fire Watchtower scene from “The Greengrocer’s Daughter,” by Suga Sensuke and Matsuda Wakichi, from […]
Jennifer Graeser Dornbush works as a screenwriter, author, speaker, and forensic specialist. She has developed film and TV projects, is the author of numerous books, and frequently speaks around the world on crime fiction and forensics. She and her family divide their time between Upper Michigan and Arizona. Learn more at jenniferdornbush.com , and follow […]
The earliest iteration of Soccer Mommy emerged out of a bedroom in the summer of 2015, with a handful of lo-fi, home-recorded songs posted to Bandcamp. The songs were sparse and built around acoustic guitar, with a vividly confessional lyricism. Sophie Allison, the artist behind the moniker, was born in Zurich, Switzerland, but moved to […]
A slew of books about Joan Didion have been published since the writer died in 2021. It’s still bright afternoon when the writer Lili Anolik slips into the dim recesses of the Odeon restaurant. Here, at New York’s timeless destination for downtown cool, she prefers to sit in the same place every time, a small […]
Credit…Vanessa Saba The Oliver Sacks that most of the world knew — the one I fell in love with after we met in 2008, when he was 75 — was the beloved neurologist and the author of many best-selling books, admired worldwide. A forthcoming volume of Oliver’s letters, nearly 350 of them, spanning 55 years, […]
