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Elspeth Barker on Jealousy, Truest of Human Vices
POETRY

Elspeth Barker on Jealousy, Truest of Human Vices

If the human infant is primitive so is its earliest vice, jealousy—probably the most innate vice of all. First comes love, then jealousy, an unholy, uninvited symbiosis. Once there was a great gaunt dog called Griselda, who lay, snarling softly, in an alcove beside the blacksmith’s furnace. With clash and with clangor he shod Bonny

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The Lifelike Illusions of A.I.
AI

The Lifelike Illusions of A.I.

In January, 1999, the Washington Post reported that the National Security Agency had issued a memo on its intranet with the subject “Furby Alert.” According to the Post , the memo decreed that employees were prohibited from bringing to work any recording devices, including “toys, such as ‘Furbys,’ with built-in recorders that repeat the audio

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This Jazz Legend Is His Own Work in Progress
SONGWRITING

This Jazz Legend Is His Own Work in Progress

Sonny Rollins circa 1960, when he took a break from performing and recording to focus on himself. THE NOTEBOOKS OF SONNY ROLLINS, edited by Sam V.H. Reese. It is possible to imagine the jazz musician Sonny Rollins’s life as a novel, pitched between realism and surrealism in the manner of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man.” The

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Ariana Grande Takes Romantic Inventory on “Eternal Sunshine”
SONGWRITING

Ariana Grande Takes Romantic Inventory on “Eternal Sunshine”

Confessional pop music has become freighted over the years by a kind of heightened expectation. Fans see more of pop stars now, in the quasi-candid precincts of social media, which means that fans believe themselves to have an understanding of pop stars, and there is a way in which songs or albums or music videos

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Writing around an AI taboo
AI

Writing around an AI taboo

A new collection of AI-assisted writing assignments co-edited by University Writing Program lecturer Carly Schnitzler offers teachers practical ways to incorporate AI into their classrooms while setting ground rules for its use The ascendance of large language models like ChatGPT has all but wrought a collective existential crisis among writing instructors. Due to a rise

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Lost Boys: On a Hidden Fraternity of the Forsaken in the American West
SCRIPTWRITING | SCREENPLAY

Lost Boys: On a Hidden Fraternity of the Forsaken in the American West

All images from The Crick , published by Twin Palms Publishers. © Jim Mangan. 1. The boys arrive slowly, appearing one by one on horseback over the lip of the ravine, plunging down the steep banks with their mounts sliding on their hocks, or in the case of Ephraim arriving in a truck pulling a

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Improve your creative writing using Story Bibles and Novelcrafter
Fiction

Improve your creative writing using Story Bibles and Novelcrafter

Improve your creative writing using Story Bibles Crafting a book series that captures the imagination of readers is a complex task and Authors must weave intricate plots and create believable characters , all while maintaining a consistent and richly detailed universe. if you would like to improve your writing skills and harness the power of

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Want to Write Better? Consider Building Your Own Writing Desk
Creative Writing

Want to Write Better? Consider Building Your Own Writing Desk

My writing desk, which I loved so much and had been with me through a decade of writing and teaching, was built into the wall. We were moving—more space—so I lay under that desk, looking at it to see if I could pry it loose to bring it with us. The basic construction looked simple

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