A robot at a typewriter University students, virtually everyone agrees, ought to learn to write well. Writing is an essential skill for academic and professional life, and so, across disciplines, we teach students to compose essays, reports, research papers and literature reviews. We want them to develop a command of language, an understanding of structure […]
AMID THE accelerated pace of our contemporary lives, did we forget how to socialize along the way, particularly in the wake of COVID-19? In her new book, Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time , Sheila Liming makes the case for putting our phones down and seeking out open-ended, in-person social interaction. The book […]
With 28 inspiring writing activities to choose from, you can help your learners spoil their mommas and express their gratitude for all that she does! From letter exchanges and poetic pieces to artier pursuits, your littles have of plenty ideas to choose from to inform how they choose to give thanks. 1. Gratitude Letter Let’s […]
The following is from Jessie Gaynor’s debut novel The Glow . Gaynor’s work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The New Yorker, WSJ Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a senior editor at Literary Hub and she has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Rona Jaffe fellow. She lives […]
Geiger , Ph.D., is assistant professor in the Department of Communication, Halicioglu Data Science Institute and Institute for Practical Ethics at UC San Diego. He lives in City Heights. I teach several courses at UC San Diego in communication and data science about the use and abuse of data, digital platforms, algorithms, personalization and artificial […]
Photo courtesy of Emily Wells. This is OPEN BOOK, a monthly column in which we ask debut authors about their reading and writing habits. Last month, we spoke with Amelia Possanza , whose book Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives tracks lesbian romance narratives across history. For this installment, we spoke with Emily Wells […]
Writer Rajesh Parameswaran ( I Am An Executioner: Love Stories ) and painter and multimedia artist Joeun Kim Aatchim met at Yaddo in 2023, where they struck up an interdisciplinary friendship. In this conversation, they discuss the distractions of residencies, how much viewers and readers should be asked to imagine, artistic layering, shifts in perspective, […]
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter— sign up here . The essay that shifted me from the “promising kid” to “young upstart” category, and almost deposited me prematurely in the “overrated incontinent” bin where I presently dwell, was a scholarly essay about a book collector named Mikimoto Ryuzo. I had become […]
On June 9, 2023, a beloved member of The Mary Sue community passed away. Brittany Knupper was a contributing writer and frequent temporary weekend editor from 2019 until earlier this year. Brittany was an exceptionally talented playwright and storyteller, and she approached pop culture and political commentary and criticism with humor, wisdom, and a cutting […]
Photo by Didssph via Unsplash There’s something viscerally appealing about nesting dolls. The same holds true, I’d argue, for nesting narratives. Each new layer to the story can either reveal or obscure the capital-t Truth at its center. Sometimes both! As a magazine writer and editor, I’m particularly aware of the difficulties intrinsic to writing […]
