Rasheed Newson’s debut novel follows a Black gay teenager during the early days of the AIDS crisis Photo by Alexander Gray via Unsplash I have long been fascinated by books about the early years of the AIDS crisis. Paul Monette’s Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir from 1988 remains a cherished work; last year’s Let the […]
Acclaimed author Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop knew the best way to tell the story of her parents lives was through memoir—a genre she’d never tried. Here, she shares six writing techniques that helped her shift from fiction to memoir. When I first thought of telling the story of my parents’ love affair in London during World […]
Their topics are heartfelt, passionate, and reflect some of the ideas that students today are grappling with. The new issue of the English Department’s publication, Undercurrents: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Composition, has been released. New issues can be found on the journal’s website . Established by the English Department’s Composition Program in 2018 , […]
Young Writers Project, an independent nonprofit based in Burlington, engages young people to write and use digital media to express themselves with clarity and power, and to gain confidence and skills for school, the workplace and life. Check out the most recent issue of The Voice, Young Writers Project’s monthly digital magazine. Click here. Each […]
From left: Danny Little, Emmanuel Agyemang-Dua L’22, Choum Prak L’24, and Sydney T. Kofi Ladans L’23. Elon Law’s 4th Annual High Rhymes & Misdemeanors Poetry Slam in downtown Greensboro celebrated the rhythm of the written word on October 20, 2022, in a program that commemorated the National Day on Writing. A fall tradition returned to […]
A photo of Annie Ernaux smiling and looking above the camera. (2cordevocali/Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0) The following is re-posted from the Conversation . We share this reflection because A nnie Ernaux’s writing centers socio-political context and the experiences, and suffering, of the French working-class. The French author Annie Ernaux has won the 2022 Nobel prize in […]
Ramy (Ramy Youssef), left, and Yuval (Julian Sergi) travel to Israel together for a business opportunity in season three of the Hulu series “Ramy.” (Courtesy of Jon Pack/Hulu via JTA) This story contains details from the third season of Hulu’s “Ramy.” JTA — Ramy Youssef expected some glitches during the production of the third season […]
Advances in AI technology have turned the concept of a computer writing for you from science-fiction to reality. Now, there are plenty of online tools and programs that can generate everything from emails to full-on blog posts at the push of a button. Many of them even integrate directly into your Google Chrome browser as […]
Robert Gilhooly / Alamy Anna Robinson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. When the 2022 Booker shortlist was announced in September, 87-year-old Alan Garner was highlighted as the oldest-ever […]
If there’s one thing we can all agree, it’s that it’s a good idea to put the guy from Lost in charge of Star Wars , right? … Right ? Just three years after J.J. Abrams wrapped up his divisive sequel trilogy, his sometime partner in crime Damon Lindelof is officially joining the circus for […]
