Graphic depicting a love letter with red editing marks. Mariya Yasinovska I have been editing for almost three years, and I still reference my Associated Press Stylebook, annually repurchased for $30, to validate most of my edits. I have Associated Press News bookmarked on my computer and click it every time I open an article […]
The actor Emma Corrin (left) and the writer Maggie Nelson, photographed in Los Angeles on July 24, 2024. Admiration Society brings together two creative people from two different fields for one wide-ranging conversation. Emma Corrin first encountered Maggie Nelson’s work three summers ago, when the actor was in Brighton, England, filming 2022’s “My Policeman,” a […]
Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year. If the continued existence of Electric Literature means something to […]
In 1955, E.B. White wrote, “The two moments when New York seems most desirable, when the splendor falls all round about and the city looks like a girl with leaves in her hair, are just as you are leaving and must say goodbye and just as you return and can say hello.” Over the years, […]
This black-and-white photo shows a bald man in a dark suit seated beside a desk strewn with papers. He faces the viewer, his right arm resting on the desk. Out of focus in the background shelves containing books or notebooks are visible. HERALD OF A RESTLESS WORLD: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People, […]
Orange County writer and native Greer Wylder, a former Daily Pilot columnist, has published “Born in OC: The Artists, Entrepreneurs, and Visionaries of Orange County.” Staff Writer Greer Wylder has run dozens of marathons. Besides the obvious fitness benefits, she finds that running sometimes helps the proverbial light bulb burst on in her head. It […]
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter— sign up here . Me: “What do you love about dialogue?” Also me: “The fact that only in a dialogue I can tell you to shut up!” When I find myself standing on stage in front of an audience, I know I’m in trouble. I’m […]
Two of our recommended books this week put rock music front and center: Peter Ames Carlin’s biography of the band R.E.M., and Izumi Suzuki’s novel of Tokyo’s rock scene in the early 1980s. We also like a biography of the physicist Roger Penrose, a study of the 20th-century novel, and fiction by Elias Khoury and […]
erep meagan malone 550px Meagan Malone, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of English, has created a website and blog called Composing in the Age of GenAI . In addition to resources, including classroom activities, assignments and rubrics from her first-year composition and professional writing courses, the site aims to connect practitioners.Few of the millions […]
In one of Sophie Calle’s first artistic experiments, she invited twenty-seven friends, acquaintances, and strangers to sleep in her bed. She photographed them awake and asleep, secretly recording any private conversation once the door closed. She served each a meal, and, if they agreed, subjected them to a questionnaire that probed their personal predilections, habits, […]
