Credit: Katie Schneider Gumiran and Rosa Gaia for Conway Elementary An instructional leader in a Bay Area school district told me last week that while they are a bright spot in improving reading for the last three years, they still haven’t recovered to pre-pandemic levels. “Our biggest pain point is writing. Our gaps start in […]
For acolytes of Mark Leyner, the 1990s were a time of abundance. No matter when new readers had joined the cult of Leyner—maybe it was after encountering My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist in 1990 or Et Tu, Babe in ’92 or Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog in ’95—the discovery of his fiction reliably sent such […]
I found literary surrealism as a young teenager by way of Anaïs Nin. I’d become obsessed, fascinated with her Cities of the Interior , which felt heightened, using surrealist imagery in the context of the erotic and the forbidden. I quickly found an identification with thoughts she expressed in The Diary of Anaïs Nin , […]
A newly published report from the University of Pittsburgh that claims “AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably,” has sent a swarm of headlines buzzing around the maligned and beloved art form. The Washington Post definitively declared, “ChatGPT is a poet” atop its article about the report. Others more closely […]
