Johnny Bender talks about the origins of the Inlandia Literary Journeys column on Sunday as co-founder Cati Porter listens at the Culver Center for the Arts. (Photo by David Allen, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG) If you’re a reader of our Sunday newspaper, you may have seen the Inlandia Literary Journeys column, penned by a rotating […]
Getty Images The Writers Guild of America is on strike. “Though we negotiated intent on making a fair deal – and though your strike vote gave us the leverage to make some gains – the studios’ responses to our proposals have been wholly insufficient, given the existential crisis writers are facing,” the WGA said in […]
Photos: Getty Images; Illustration: Variety The Met Gala may have been the last glitzy event to avoid picket signs. As of 12:01 a.m. on May 2, members of the creative community on both coasts (and production hubs in between) have traded the finery of that event for fire and brimstone on picket lines. The breakdown […]
Today Rachael Shah and students Desert View High School senior Kiara Abre’u used to be nervous when thinking about graduating from high school and going to college. That changed when she joined a Wildcat Writers partnership as part of her junior year English class. A community-based education program in the University of Arizona Department of […]
Home » Uncategorized » Are Stendhal and Shakespeare ready for the world of AI? Mike Gioia says “yes”! « Robert Harrison to explore “critical frontiers” in Cambridge’s Clark Lectures, May 9-18 Bringing Stendhal to the 21st century Mike Gioia has worked in big budget film production on superhero shows. He’s also created a poetry film […]
Reddit, Tell Me Where I Went Wrong AITA for Repairing My Neighbor’s House? My neighbor (32F) is not speaking to me (44M) because I made some repairs to her home while she was out of town. These were mostly exterior and relatively minor (clearing debris, replacing deck boards, adding a utility sink, installing a rain […]
Artists 360 Artists 360, a program of Mid-America Arts Alliance, returns for its sixth year. From May 1 to June 28, applications are open for four categories of grants to artists in Northwest Arkansas. Interested applicants are invited to attend one of five free information sessions. Since 2018, the Artists 360 program has partnered with […]
I might not have read a single truly funny novel that year if my friend hadn’t stopped by my Los Angeles porch one afternoon carrying an out-of-print copy of Robert Plunket’s comic masterpiece, My Search for Warren Harding . We were in the worst of days—the depths of the pre-vaccine pandemic—and our world was on […]
UChicago faculty member Ling Ma’s first book “ Severance ” (2018) received multiple accolades and funding, including the Kirkus Prize , the Whiting Award and the New York Library Young Lions Fiction Award as well earning her a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her second book, “ Bliss Montage ,” (2022) has […]
Two new graphic novels, “Bea Wolf” and “Mulysses,” are mash-ups many times over. Both use words and images. Both are designed for children and adults. Both borrow elements from famously complicated stories: “Bea Wolf” picks up verbal schemes and plot points from “Beowulf”; “Mulysses” plays on the deadpan humor of “Moby-Dick” and the Cyclops section […]
