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Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
The Young Man and the Sea Sponge
SpongeBob SquarePants turned 20 this summer. This is the story of how a marine biology teacher named Stephen Hillenburg gave life to an animated character who continues to delight fans worldwide.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
A Portrait of the Artist as a Monster
Does art exist in the world of personality and petty grievance and predation, or does it float in a morally-neutral ether? Depends who you ask.
Posted inReading List, Writing
On Keeping a Notebook: A Reading List
In this reading list, Jeanne Bonner ruminates on the joys of writing by hand and keeping a notebook.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Looking Back at Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville
Sometimes the music that endures is the music a musician writes early in their career, when they’ve lived inside a bubble free from fans and critical expectations. Songwriter Liz Phair made a huge splash in 1993 with her debut album Exile in Guyville. The album spawned a devoted following and, thankfully, its own 33 1/3 book. […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Commentary, Culture, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Story
‘Give It Up For My Sister’: Beyonce, Solange, and The History of Sibling Acts in Pop
Family dynasties are neither new nor newly influential in pop.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Does Recovery Kill Great Writing?
In this excerpt from her book, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, Leslie Jamison recalls how in the early days of recovery, she examined the work of newly-sober writers like John Berryman and Charles Jackson for clues about how sobriety would affect her as a writer. It wasn’t until she read David Foster Wallace’s Infinite […]
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‘Craft Is My Belief System. My Obligation To Writing Is Religious.’
Nathan Englander talks about the “super-American world” of Orthodox Judaism, Philip Roth’s funeral, and training himself to write his new novel “kaddish.com” while daydreaming.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature
Mothering Is Not the Enemy of Creative Work
Journalist Erika Hayasaki uses science to show how motherhood can improve creativity.
Posted inBooks, First Chapters, Nonfiction, Quotes, Writing
Leslie Jamison: Does Recovery Kill Great Writing?
When Leslie Jamison got sober she wanted to know how a life lived without alcohol would affect her writing.
