In literature, as in real life, complicated mothers and our relationships with them affect us whether they’re in the room or on the page with us or not. I’m interested in books where mothers are not necessarily central characters—some are dead when the story begins, for example—but whose impacts (or absence) are far-reaching. The sort […]
Credit…Rebecca Clarke “I mean that as an organizing principle,” says the U.S. poet laureate, who has edited a new anthology of nature poetry called “You Are Here,” “and also as a slight against prose.” Credit…Rebecca Clarke What books are on your night stand? My night stand doesn’t speak to me anymore. That’s because, here’s the […]
Gary Clement Children’s books have long featured pint-size heroes overcoming fierce antagonists: ogres, witches and big bad wolves. So it comes as no surprise that a similar drama occurs in these three stories. Only here, children are up against something far more complex: their parents. These moms and pops — by turns cruel, overprotective, distracted […]
Some Microsoft customers are complaining about the company’s relatively new artificial intelligence, Copilot, an add-on to Word, Excel and other Office suite apps, saying that it doesn’t stack up to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. But Microsoft calls “user error,” according to a report by Business Insider. Either unhappy users are working with older versions of Office that […]
John Barth was a pioneer of literary postmodernism.Credit…Bettmann/Getty Nobody likes the comic who explains his own material, but the writer John Barth, who died on Tuesday, had a way of making explanations — of gags, of stories, of the whole creative enterprise — sing louder and funnier and truer than punchlines. The maxim “Show, don’t […]
The author of The Sicilian Inheritance writes from trains, planes, and (years ago) nightclub bathrooms. Jo Piazza’s mystery/thriller, The Sicilian Inheritance, was inspired by her great-great-grandmother’… Bustle Book Club Jo Piazza has written 12 books, and she’s not afraid to play favorites. “I’ve been hustling for this one more than I have for anything else,” […]
April is showering us with two excellent SFF collections right at the start of the month, which both feel like poking around in the brains of their respective authors (Cixin Liu and Ann Leckie). If you’re more in the mood for a novel to get lost in—maybe even, weather permitting, at a café or the […]
Credit…Rebecca Clarke That kids’ classic “completely changed my life,” says the former football star, now the University of Colorado’s “Coach Prime.” His new book is “Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field.” Credit…Rebecca Clarke Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). Peace! I need my peace. I usually […]
If you are looking for ways to improve your writing both for pleasure and business you might be interested to know that a wealth of tools are available at your disposal. Google DeepMind’s AI studio has made Gemini 1.5, a powerful tool that uses artificial intelligence to study literature in depth. This guide will show […]
Credit…Carlo Giambarresi WOLF AT THE TABLE by Adam Rapp It is not uncommon for novelists to deal with speculation about how much of their own lives makes its way into their fiction. The typical response is to deflect, with some version of how we are in all our books, and leave it at that. Adam […]
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