I’m one of those reader types who always wanted to join in on book clubs, but never has enough willing friends or social energy to actually up and join one. Especially not one in person. What if my thoughts on the book are nonsense? What if no one shows up and it’s just me, sitting […]
Let’s get to know the en dash . An en dash is one of the special punctuation marks that most people see all the time, but rarely think about how to use correctly. Fun fact : the reason the en and em dashes have those names are because of their lengths. An em dash is […]
YouTuber A Drink With Crazy recently argued that Marvel Studios bringing in Hugh Jackman to reprise his role as Wolverine doesn’t matter because their writing talent has significantly declined over the last half-decade. James McAvoy as Charles Xavier, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, and Michael Fassbender as Erik Lensherr in X-Men: First Class (2011), Marvel Entertainment. […]
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to announce a new addition to the Film MFA Program: the Writing for Film & Television concentration . This three-year program is designed specifically for students whose main focus is writing. “Columbia is known around the world as ‘the story school.’ We believe storytelling should underpin every […]
“The Cape” from The Islands by Dionne Irving, recommended by CJ Hauser Introduction by CJ Hauser I think I have been confused about the nature of limbo. I once thought of it as the place I would go, as a heathen. Which is not to say I’ve done an inadequate amount of lovely things or […]
DALLAS, November 01, 2022 –( BUSINESS WIRE )–On Saturday, October 29, Thomas Reale (President and COO of Brown Books Publishing Group) announced a first-ever partnership with the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, wherein BBPG will award an $80,000 publishing contract prize to their 2023 nonfiction book manuscript contest winner. The winner of this contest will receive […]
Physician, biologist and author Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York City, October 2022. The Pulitzer-winning science author on combining the history of cell biology with personal stories, the influence of Salman Rushdie and why he likes to write in bed Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of four science books, including The Emperor of All Maladies , which […]
With AMC’s epic series The Walking Dead coming to its eleventh season finale this November, a lot of fans will be saying goodbye to characters and a universe we’ve known for almost 20 years. The news is bittersweet, as all good things must end, but the network isn’t dropping us cold-turkey. There are a number […]
Olga Kryazhich’s destroyed apartment. Photograph courtesy of Kryazhich. I was almost done with a draft of my novel when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. Amid the destruction and devastation that followed, continuing with my novel felt impossible; I turned toward journalism, which had always been a part-time job for me. For seven months, I […]
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 , […]
