Horseshoe Crab Diary
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 …
Developing Antagonism in Your Story
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 …
James Frey’s New Novel, “Next to Heaven” Is as Bad as It Sounds
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 …
Developmental Milestones for Authoritarians – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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 …
The Taste of Pencils
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 …
The Activist Memoir: How to Write for Change
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 …
“A Marriage at Sea” Is a Study of Couplehood in Extremis
“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 …
How I Learned to Stop Teaching and Love AI
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 …
A Snake Hunt in God’s Country
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 …
Evergreen Home Loans hiring to serve 29 additional states
After setting up shop in 11 new states, lender’s “strategic expansion into carefully identified markets nationwide” will include 18 additional states before next year’s spring homebuying season.