Writing-Focused Startups Draw Big Bucks
For years, tech writers have been warning about how AI will eliminate the need for all kinds of human-staffed professions from truck driving to portfolio management. Turns out, the AI bots are really coming for us. That’s becoming increasingly clear amidst the ongoing tech world buzz around OpenAI ’s newly launched ChatGPT writing bot. Today’s […]
Step aside ultrawide, ultra-tall monitors are perfect for reading and writing
LG’s new DualUp monitor is unconventional, to say the least. It doesn’t look like any monitor I’ve ever used, let alone seen. The display stands 28 inches tall with a 16:18 aspect ratio. It’s a sight you’d be forgiven for stopping and staring at, but the decision to stand out with a unique design ultimately […]
Why Reading and Writing Fan-fiction Shouldn’t Be Embarrassing
The opinions expressed in this article are the writer’s own and do not reflect the views of Her Campus. As a dorky preteen during the 2010s, I was bound to be exposed to the large world of popular fanfiction sites, such as Wattpad , AO3 , and Quotev . I would endlessly scroll through users’ […]
Memoir reveals gay writer’s struggle with homelessness, rape
‘A Place Called Home: A Memoir’ By David Ambroz c. 2022, Legacy Lit/Hachette $30/384 pages For David Ambroz, 42, author of the stunning new memoir “A Place Called Home,” one of his childhood recollections is of himself and his siblings walking with Mary, their mother, on a freezing Christmas morning in New York City. Today, […]
Novelist Ian McEwan: Writing is “a way of being”
“A secret, I think, can be fatal,” said acclaimed novelist Ian McEwan. “She died with her secret intact.” That secret McEwan is talking about was a personal one held by his mother: “She would give birth to a baby boy, and she gave that child away. The moment she gave that child away, I think […]
A Summary and Analysis of Adrienne Rich’s ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’
‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’ is a 1951 poem by the American poet Adrienne Rich (1929-2012), published in her first poetry collection, A Change of World , which was published while the precocious Rich was still in her early twenties. Rich was known for her feminist writings as well as her poetry, and this fact is relevant […]
Woman finds way to honor slain friends by writing children’s book
Madi Taylor never planned to be an author, but when her friends, Grant and Mary Drayton Godbee, died in a tragic accident, her grief led her to write a story of hope. You’ve reached subscriber exclusive content. Subscribe now for immediate access. Or, log in if you’re a subscriber. Click here to view original web […]
Harvard Authors Spotlight: Nadia Colburn on Poetic Process and Inter-Being
Nadia Colburn ’95 recently sat down with The Harvard Crimson to discuss her holistic approach to writing. It is easy to confine writing to a highly formalized art form, entered through academia, confined to a particular realm of education. Nadia Colburn ’95, a poet, teacher, and writing coach currently based in Cambridge, argues for a […]
Molly Sentell Haile ’94 on the Art of the Short Story and Healing Through Writing
Sentelle Haile’s fiction has appeared in Jabberwock Review and Cream City Review and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her nonfiction has appeared in Oxford American and O. Henry Magazine and has received an honorable mention in The Best American Nonrequired Reading . She teaches creative writing classes for people with cancer, survivors and […]
How to Join a TikTok Book Club
I’m one of those reader types who always wanted to join in on book clubs, but never has enough willing friends or social energy to actually up and join one. Especially not one in person. What if my thoughts on the book are nonsense? What if no one shows up and it’s just me, sitting […]