The relationship between political writer Robert Caro and his longtime editor Bob Gottlieb is the subject of “Turn Every Page,” a documentary directed by Gottlieb’s daughter Lizzie. (Courtesy) ( New York Jewish Week ) — Bob Gottlieb, who as editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker ushered into print some […]
Director David Fincher and writer Andrew Kevin Walker made magic together when they joined forces for Se7en back in the ’90s, and they reunite for this year’s brand new The Killer . Netflix has announced today that The Killer will premiere on November 10, 2023 . Check out some first-look footage in Netflix’s 2023 preview […]
Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference invites Scholarship and Master Class applications through February 15, 2023 for its in-person annual summer conference. The 2023 conference includes morning workshops in 10 genres plus a juried Master Class, as well as afternoon seminars . Scholarships to be awarded to applicants of all levels and backgrounds and may include tuition […]
There’s always so much happening in the Writer’s Digest universe that even staff members have trouble keeping up. As a result, we decided to start collecting what’s on the horizon to make it easier for everyone to know what’s happening and when. This week, we’re excited to announce the final call for our Short Short […]
How ChatGPT and other AI systems may ruin the ability to write (and think). ChatGPT and other AI-assisted writing softwares have arrived. And by all accounts, they are surprisingly good. From the perspective of writing education, this kind of software is more than a little problematic. This software may well reduce writing, communication, and thinking […]
Obsessively narrating life can get in the way of living it. But my chronicling is a source of comfort ‘I know my account of events is partial.’ Under an awning at night with the rain coming down. On the top deck of a bus traveling between parties at opposite ends of London and leaning against […]
With every passing hour, crucial developments are being made in the Computer Science field, and Artificial Intelligence is currently the main focus of technology. As AI keeps growing, our dependence on it for doing our tasks is also increasing; though it has not been fully explored, nor do we know to what extent it can […]
Writing “The Whale,” says Samuel D. Hunter, “felt entirely different than my previous plays. It was at once easier to write and more difficult, familiar but scarily vulnerable.” I didn’t set out to write a film. At first, I wasn’t even sure I was writing a play. Maybe it was something I needed to write […]
I am an appreciative recipient of this holiday season’s most exciting book: a volume bearing the title “Reflections in Light and Shadow, an Anthology of Short Memoirs” (Sunshine Place, Manila, 2022). The book is the harvest from a memoir-writing workshop in 2021-2022 during the pandemic and was conducted at the Sunshine Place, Senior Recreation Center […]
Illustration: Andreion de Castro Earlier this year, I wrote about genre-fiction authors using AI in their novels. Most wrote for Amazon’s Kindle platform, where an extremely rapid pace of publishing, as fast as a book a month, is the norm. AI helped them write quickly, but it also raised complex aesthetic and ethical questions. Would […]
