If you are looking for the best AI writing tools, we have got you covered right here. AI writing tools have become mainstream these days and you can easily find dozens of writing tools on the market but not every AI writing tool is capable of producing high-quality content. Choosing the right AI tool that […]
“The Roommates,” flash fiction by Kathleen Barber The Commuter Subscribe Strange, short, and diverting writing delivered to your inbox every Monday.. Rush Week at Kappa Kappa Murder The Roommates Every year, on the third weekend in October, there’s a vigil for Caroline. Every year, they use the same easel to prop up the same poster-size […]
Love in the Archives: A Patchwork of True Stories About Suicide Loss by Eileen Vorbach Collins EILEEN VORBACH COLLINS’S new memoir-in-essays, Love in the Archives: A Patchwork of Stories About Suicide Loss , is about the liminal space of parental grief and the big questions that inevitably follow: What happened to that which animated my […]
Screenshot from the movie “Saltburn” In Saltburn , the backdrops are as mesmerizing and as essential to the plot as the delicate portrayal of the central relationship between Oliver and Felix. The settings are both tight and enclosed, the campus and the country house. These are my favorite settings for novels—discrete locations with groups defined […]
Most of us who enjoy books are largely agreed upon concepts like “good writing” and “clarity and confidence of expression” being fundamental to our delight in the play of words upon a page. We are brought up to learn that conveying our thoughts in “good English” is part of our education in that language, and […]
Using Perplexity Pro for copywriting and content creation If you are searching for ways to improve your writing, copywriting or content creation, you will already know that finding the right tools to craft compelling copy is essential. Thanks to the explosion of artificial intelligence over the last 18 months there are now plenty of different […]
Recent books published by alumni of StoryStudio Chicago’s In a Year programs This week StoryStudio Chicago kicked off its third annual Pub Crawl , a month-long online publishing intensive, or program, of classes and panels demystifying the publishing world. The intensive includes advice from established authors, agents, and editors. The local literary nonprofit has supported […]
It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all of the new books coming out each month. And, as a result, it’s easy to miss or put off getting books that came out in hardcover, even the ones that garnered all the buzz. But fear not: the paperback reprints of February (also, how is it already February […]
Research by Norwegian neuroscientists suggests that the pen really is mightier than the (key)board. Hardly anyone except for children in lower grades know how to write with a pen or pencil; keyboards and smartphone screens have almost completely taken over. And cursive writing in English is hardly taught in Israeli schools anymore. But is this […]
In an ever more digital world, pen and paper are increasingly getting replaced with screens and keyboards in classrooms. Now, a new study has investigated neural networks in the brain during hand- and typewriting. The researchers showed that connectivity between different brain regions is more elaborate when letters are formed by hand. This improved brain […]
