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Writers Guild of America calls for a strike
Television and film writers have begun the process of striking against major Hollywood studios: Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Discovery-Warner, NBC Universal, Paramount and Sony. The Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the studios, failed to come up with a new three-year contract in advance of the
The AI In The Writers' Room
What if we made Hemingway fun? Sexy? Modern? Our AI can do it — can spit back fresh drafts in his voice — almost instantly. Derek Abella for Noema Magazine I am sorry to report to my team that Katrina finds Chapter 4 “all wrong.” She's not sold on Chapter 3 either. “Why? What did
International Armenian Literary Alliance Launches 3 Grants for Creative Writing and Translation
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
Influential Writing Mentor Dies
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
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Our recommended books this week take you from the depths of the ocean to the heights of the sky: Brad Fox's “The Bathysphere Book” recounts a fascinating episode of deep-sea exploration in the 1930s (with gorgeous illustrations), and S.C. Gwynne's “His Majesty's Airship” revisits a British dirigible disaster from 1930 that was even deadlier than
Read the first reviews of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. George Orwell's dystopian masterwork, Nineteen Eight-Four , was first published seventy-four years ago today. Set in a totalitarian London in an imagined future where all citizens are subject to constant government surveillance and historical reeducation, Nineteen Eighty-Four tells the story of
A Writer Recognizes Herself in Another Writer's Story
Keziah Weir writes, “The pages of the short story were crisp like new bills and my heart sped up when I turned them.”Credit…Public/Official THE MYTHMAKERS, by Keziah Weir What navel-gazers we writers of fiction are! It's an attribute few of us would deny, but while it most often evokes autobiography, even those of us who