“The White House published a list of Smithsonian exhibits, programming, and artwork it considered objectionable on Thursday, one week after announcing that eight of the institution’s museums must submit their …
Photograph by Grace Byron. July 6, 2024 My obsession with horseshoe crabs started small. D. and I went to the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge on a bird walk. The two …
Photo by David Clode on Unsplash Today’s post is by writer, editor, and book coach Erin Halden. Conflict is the key to a successful story. Without it, all you have is …
The author page of “Next to Heaven,” James Frey’s new novel, breathlessly notes that Frey “was called America’s Most Notorious Author by Time Magazine and the Bad Boy of American …
By age three, your authoritarian should be able to blame juice spills on political enemies, such as a baby sibling or a weird uncle. If he or she (but likely …
Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. Photograph by Christopher Michel, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. I remember the taste of Mr. Bubble. I know the flavor of Milk-Bones. While …
Photo by Call Me Fred on Unsplash Today’s post is by editor and book coach Stephanie Mitchell. Is it too much to hope that your memoir can have a concrete …
“To have chosen such a life, as opposed to having been drugged or crimped or hoaxed aboard, was almost defiant in its sense of alienation,” Geoffrey Wolff writes in his …
Like a fool, I used to resist, but no more. In the past, I railed against the rise of AI. I preached small-minded sermons to students who had to sit …
All photos courtesy of the author. The middle of nowhere, a hole-in-the-wall, flyover counties—even the U.S. Census Bureau defines rurality as a type of absence: “all areas not classified as …