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Writing
April 22, 2024
Magazine
Samanth Subramanian
AI and the End of the Human Writer
If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity?
September 15, 2022
Colin Dickey
The Axios Guide to Writing Well Is Neither Smart Nor Brief
How much complexity is lost in a sentence no longer than six words?
June 20, 2022
Magazine
Joanna Scutts
The End of the Art-Baby Problem
In the lives of women from Alice Neel to Ursula Le Guin, motherhood was entwined with a quest to make art.
September 30, 2016
Jess Row
What Are White Writers For?
For a writer to deny that fiction is political is not only an act of bad faith, but an artistic failure.
June 21, 2016
Josephine Wolff
Why the Humble Notebook Is Flourishing in the iPhone Era
The craze for bullet journaling shows that sometimes pen and paper is best—as long as the results can be Instagrammed.
December 8, 2015
Max Rivlin-Nadler
What Would a Real Freelancer’s Union Look Like?
July 16, 2014
Alice Robb
Interruptions Are Even Worse Than We Thought
That Gchat is definitely hurting your work
February 26, 2014
Adam Kirsch
The Real Reason Writers Love the Amtrak Residency
It's not just the free train ticket
November 5, 2013
Meredith Turits
Therapy: The Cause of, and Solution to, All of Writers' Problems
October 29, 2013
Luke O'Neil
Yes, Young Writers Should Give Their Work Away for Free
It's sad but true: There's no other way to make it
October 25, 2013
Lionel Shriver
How to Succeed as an Author: Give Up on Writing
The rancid smell of 21st century literary success
November 3, 2003
Zadie Smith
The Limited Circle Is Pure
November 25, 1956
James T. Farrell
Writers with Few Readers
August 27, 1951
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Elizabeth Bishop
Love From Emily
To Emily Dickinson, little besides love, human and divine, was worth writing about, and often the two seemed to fuse.
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