Credit…Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times Dear readers, Could I interest you in a literary field trip to the sauna? The oak branch whipping is optional. The cold plunge is not. Every so often these shocks to the system are tremendously welcome: a way to clear the mind, heart and qi, even if the […]
Entertainment ‘The Idea of You’ soundtrack producer says he wasn’t thinking about One Direction while writing music for August Moon Facebook Email Twitter LinkedIn Copy Link Read in app Paul Bergen/Redferns, Alisha Wetherill/Prime, Dave Pedley/Getty, Tyler Le/BI Savan Kotecha is the lead songwriter and producer behind “The Idea of You” soundtrack. The movie features a […]
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter— sign up here . One hot, fine summer morning, a group of pre-adolescent boys flits to the outskirts of Sweet Water, Nebraska. Splashing through sand-bottomed creeks and tramping over lush meadows, they come to a faded, bumptious, yet appealing white house that sits on the […]
Readers spend most of their time inside books. That’s where the action is. But when talking about a book’s design people usually focus on the covers: ooh look at that beauty or how interesting, I want to pick that up . But you might not realize that the inside of books is also designed, every […]
Before Geraldine DeRuiter first went viral in 2018 for her essay, “ I Made the Pizza Cinnamon Rolls from Mario Batali’s Sexual Misconduct Apology Letter ,” she felt well-known food publications never wanted her work. And then, she made the cinnamon rolls. From that moment on, DeRuiter was thrust into the culinary spotlight. She won […]
In 2016, Alex de Vries read somewhere that a single bitcoin transaction consumes as much energy as the average American household uses in a day. At the time, de Vries, who is Dutch, was working at a consulting firm. In his spare time, he wrote a blog, called Digiconomist, about the risks of investing in […]
using Claude 3 to improve your prompt writing Anthropic recently launched its latest large language model in the form of Claude 3 which is capable of outperforming ChatGPT in a number of areas. This quick guide will provide some more insight on how you can use Claude 3 to improve your prompt writing process as […]
I was excited when I RSVP’d. It would be a lovely way to end the tour, I thought, maybe even comforting— a balm for the months of nightly performances, all the new faces. I secretly love weddings despite the bitter hopelessness loudly knocking on the door to my temperamental heart. I get to dress up, […]
All images courtesy of the author. It’s 8pm on a Sunday night in Tokyo and, as usual, I clear my schedule to catch the latest episode of the historical drama Dear Radiance (Hikaru Kimie). The show is set in the lush universe of Japan’s 11th century and follows the life of Mahiro, while turning a […]
The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: * Hala Alyan ( The Moon That Turns You Back ) Steven Kurutz ( American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home […]
