Bruce Degen signing a poster at a book store in Minneapolis. He collaborated on 14 books in the “Magic School Bus” series. Bruce Degen, the illustrator of “The Magic School Bus” series of children’s books, died on Thursday at his home in Newtown, Conn. He was 79. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his family said. […]
“Didion & Babitz” presents Joan Didion (left) and Eve Babitz as “two halves of American womanhood.” DIDION & BABITZ , by Lili Anolik The writers Joan Didion and Eve Babitz were both ambitious California natives, moved in similar circles in Hollywood in the 1960s and ’70s and died within days of each other, in December […]
Left to right: “We Live in Time,” starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, explores themes of love, death and grief with its emotionally-gripping characters and realistic plot. Spoilers ahead. Trigger warnings for cancer, its complications and a graphic birth scene. “We Live in Time” presents itself as a standard love story, though it is anything […]
Uyless Black Last week, I wrote 269 words for the back cover of a book I recently completed. After some edits, I thought it was a solid piece. A few days ago, these words were fed into an AI package by my editor. Nothing else was given to the AI software, just my write-up. In […]
Credit: sompong_tom via Adobe Images 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 edge in creative stories. But recent AI updates have made the platforms better in compelling — and […]
