The following is from Jessie Gaynor’s debut novel The Glow . Gaynor’s work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The New Yorker, WSJ Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a senior editor at Literary Hub and she has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Rona Jaffe fellow. She lives […]
Writer Rajesh Parameswaran ( I Am An Executioner: Love Stories ) and painter and multimedia artist Joeun Kim Aatchim met at Yaddo in 2023, where they struck up an interdisciplinary friendship. In this conversation, they discuss the distractions of residencies, how much viewers and readers should be asked to imagine, artistic layering, shifts in perspective, […]
Since OpenAI launched its ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022, it has been used by people to help them write everything from poems, to work emails, to research papers. Yet, while ChatGPT may masquerade as a human, the inaccuracy of its writing can introduce errors that could be devastating if used for serious tasks like academic […]
Jamal with confetti. Rachel B. Glaser. The collective dream is over. Squinting, we walk out of the playoffs and return to Life. Images linger—a giant holding a toddler in a storm of confetti. A shiny, exuberant, mantis-like man standing next to a trophy. The woman who sat courtside wearing red and white gowns. The inexplicable […]
WHAT AN OWL KNOWS: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , by Jennifer Ackerman While reading “What an Owl Knows,” by the science writer Jennifer Ackerman, I was reminded that my daughter once received a gift of a winter jacket festooned with colorful owls. At the time I thought of the coat […]
Photo by Didssph via Unsplash There’s something viscerally appealing about nesting dolls. The same holds true, I’d argue, for nesting narratives. Each new layer to the story can either reveal or obscure the capital-t Truth at its center. Sometimes both! As a magazine writer and editor, I’m particularly aware of the difficulties intrinsic to writing […]
Introduction by Halimah Marcus Jun 12, 2023 Issue No 578 The Perfect Beach Weather for Every Gender Written by Marne Litfin Recommended by Halimah Marcus “Neither of my girlfriends would take me to the beach.” So begins “Daisies” by Marne Litfin, in which the narrator’s friend, Miller, drives from Binghamton to Philadelphia to do what […]
The Poetry Experience meets on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month at the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. On a recent Saturday afternoon at the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, a group of nine people sit in a circle in a third-floor meeting room. They’re here to write poetry through a group called […]
Caroline Rosenstone. Dedication to Rosenstone and handwritten note from former student Natalie Beach in a new book of essays. Caroline Rosenstone, who created and then for over three decades directed a writing program that turned high schoolers into skilled essayists and critics, died this week at the age of 70. The cause of death is […]
The International Armenian Literary Alliance’s Creative Writing Grant graphic The International Armenian Literary Alliance announced the launch of three grants for creative writing and translation—each worth $2,500—to one writer and two translators whose work-in-progress show exceptional literary and creative ability. Applications will be open from September 1 to September 30 and the winners will be […]
