Why does the literary world still hold online writing at arm’s length?
Literature
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Confessions of a Viral AI Writer
“Despite my success with AI-generated stories, I’m not sure they are good for writers—or writing itself.”
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How Literary Translation Can Shift the Tides of Power
“I am just one parent. What if more parents read translated books with their children?”
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Misdirectives
“A public high school teacher asks why the wrong things cause a fuss in schools.”
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The Terrifying Car Crash That Inspired a Masterpiece
“Fifty years ago, a Kansas family picked up a hitchhiker on their way to Iowa. What happened on that drive became part of literary history.”
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‘The Ways of Fiction Are Devious Indeed’
“Finding current relevancy—and outrage—in the accusations of plagiarism that have long haunted a classic of the West: Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose.”
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On Writing: An Abecedarian
“To be inside the cathedral of a language is to be inside a particular view of the world.”
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We Need to Translate More Armenian Literature
“We need them to assert our very existence.”
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The Function and Language of Ancient Sexual Texts
A fascinating look at so-called obscenity, then and now.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Novelist Charles Portis Was a True Original
Every Portis fan has a different favorite passage from his novels, but they agree on one thing: no one wrote like Portis.