The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2024
It’s abacus and laurels time here at Book Marks HQ. We, the industrious and sun-starved Book Marks miners, have spent 12 months chiseling reviews from more than 150 publications—from the Washington Post to the Irish Times , the San Francisco Chronicle to the London Review of Books —all so that we can now tell you, […]
The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2024
Book Marks logo It’s abacus and laurels time here at Book Marks HQ. We, the industrious and sun-starved Book Marks miners, have spent 12 months chiseling reviews from more than 150 publications—from the Washington Post to the Irish Times , the San Francisco Chronicle to the London Review of Books —all so that we can […]
UCLA’s new AI-designed literature course has the worst-looking textbook cover I’ve ever seen.
Image courtesy of UCLA’s website , but since AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted, maybe this acknowledgment doesn’t matter. UCLA announced the other day that “Comp Lit 2BW will be the first course in the UCLA College Division of Humanities to be built around the Kudu artificial intelligence platform. The textbook: AI-generated. Class assignments: AI-generated. Teaching […]
Maggie O’Farrell Reflects on Stammering in New Kids Book: ‘Don’t Think I Would Be a Writer Without It’ (Exclusive)
“I wanted to write something which takes a stammer seriously,” the author says of ‘When the Stammer Came to Stay,’ out Dec. 10 from Walker Books US Comments Maggie O’ Farrell and the cover of ‘When the Stammer Came to Stay’. Photo: Murdo Macleod 2017; Walker Books US Author Maggie O’Farrell is fascinated by the […]
Tomlinson on writing and writers workshop
Tim Tomlinson is a Professor of Writing at New York University’s Global Liberal Studies Program. He is a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop, and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. He is the author of the chapbook, Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse; the poetry collection, Requiem for the […]