Meet the author: Dickinson professor Adrienne Su | FOX43 Book Club
Adrienne Su is an author and professor of creative writing at Dickinson College. She wrote “Living Quarters,” the FOX43 Book Club’s January read. CARLISLE, Pa. — They say to teach what you know—a message author Adrienne Su takes to heart. When she’s not in the classroom, Su can be found working on her collections of […]
Replaying “The Piano”: Lessons from “A Girl’s Own Story”
IN THE OPENING scenes of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things (2023), a slender, dark-haired woman in Victorian dress leaps into a large body of water to end her life. Against her will, she is rescued and reanimated. This heroine, we learn, is Bella Baxter (Emma Stone): a despairing wife turned Bride of Frankenstein, whose body has […]
8 Books on Love, Loss, and Betrayal in the Caribbean
Photo by Elias Vidal on Unsplash Growing up, I often thought of my mother as a collector of people. She collected people the way other people collect things. So it was never just us five—my parents and their three girls. Instead, people appeared, staying for various periods and disappearing: the live-in helpers; teens and young […]
Venita Blackburn Thinks You Should Turn Your Troubles Into Stories
Photo by Curology on Unsplash When I heard Venita Blackburn had a novel coming out, my desire to read it was palpable, a hunger. Her work is distinctive—it’s sharp, smart, and imaginative, often pushing voice and form—and her debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, California , is no exception. The novel follows Coral, a lonely […]
Zachary Pace on the Push and Pull of Working in Publishing as a Writer
From earliest memory, I knew that my aunt worked in book publishing. As an editor of children’s books at a large, corporate publisher, she would send me boxes upon boxes of cast-offs that she’d find around the office. Even before I had learned how to read, I would thumb through these books in my solitude—as […]
7 Ways to Detect AI Writing Without Technology
7 Ways to Detect AI Writing. Over the summer, I began seeing the first suspected cases of AI use in the introductory college writing courses that I teach online. Since then, AI-generated essays have become a more common element of these classes. Thankfully, I’ve gotten much better at instantly spotting AI papers thanks to some […]
I Have to Poke Holes in Things: A Conversation with Natasha Stagg
ON A VERY chilly Los Angeles evening (I could see my breath and wore a scarf!) I heard Natasha Stagg read from her latest book, Artless: Stories 2019–2023 ( Semiotext(e), 2023), alongside Jackie Wang and Chris Kraus at the Poetic Research Bureau in the Historic Filipinotown neighborhood. The literary trio drew a packed crowd of […]
Building a Writing Community On and Off the Internet
Photo by Kelly Sikkema via Unsplash Starting back in 2018, Jami Attenberg brought together writers on social media as a means of accountability. The philosophy of #1000wordsofsummer was to develop a daily writing practice of 1000 words because small increments seem doable and quickly accrue. Over 33,000 writers subscribe to her motivational newsletter connected to […]
Robert Glück’s Gloriously Unreliable Memorial to a Lost Love
Bob and Ed met at a San Francisco streetcar stop in 1970. The two men were in their early twenties. They had each come from watching the same film that evening, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s debauched landmark “Trash.” Ed, who wore a blue peacoat, his hair below his shoulders, spoke first. “I noticed you […]
On seeing failure as necessary
Writer, editor, and teacher Aaron Burch discusses how he’s learned to embrace his craft as a hobby and evolve from the little failures that lead to success Writing , Failure , First attempts , Success , Focus Part of: From a conversation with Shelby Hinte Highlights on Download as a PDF You’re a teacher and […]