“A Saint Reading,” circa 1470Credit…Bartolomeo Vivarini Hold your breath/Make a wish/Count to three/Come with me and you’ll be/In a world of pure imagination. Instead of touring a surreal chocolate manufacturer today, we’re wishing ourselves to someplace much realer and saltier, which is … Italy! I was fortunate enough to travel to lovely Parma last month […]
When I was nineteen and a college junior, I spent what was supposed to be an exotic, sultry, educational summer semester in Madrid. But my long-term boyfriend back home and I had recently broken up, and instead of being excited by my new surroundings, I was miserable. All I wanted to do was to talk […]
Rachel Syme Staff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. In 1966, the same year the writer Truman Capote published his masterpiece, the true-crime epic “ In Cold Blood ,” excerpted in this magazine in […]
Truman Capote couldn’t have fully appreciated his good fortune while writing the true-crime masterpiece “In Cold Blood.” By the time his so-called nonfiction novel was published—with its many creative licenses—the two killers whose lives he’d dramatized had been executed; they couldn’t talk back. He wasn’t so lucky with his next major project, “Answered Prayers,” which […]
When Emily Cataneo and Arshia Simkin graduated from their Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing program in 2019, they realized there weren’t many opportunities outside of a university setting to improve creative writing. From there, Redbud Writing Project, the Triangle’s only adult creative writing school, was born. Founded by Cataneo and Simkin in 2019, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ruaridh Mollica in Sebastian. In Sebastian, Max leads a double life as a writing student and a sex worker, using his experiences for material. The film explores the themes of identity, intimacy, and shame in the context of Max’s dual existence. Sebastian is equally critical of the literary world and highlights the blurred lines between […]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Cone’ is a short story by H. G. Wells (1866-1946), first published in Unicorn magazine on 18 September 1895. The story is one of Wells’s few works of fiction to be set in the Potteries in Staffordshire, England: a part of the country in which he lived for […]
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 […]
