“Lynn Caponera, president of the Maurice Sendak Foundation, was going through the late artist’s files last year … when she found a typewritten manuscript titled Presto and Zesto in Limboland, co-authored by Sendak and his frequent collaborator, Arthur Yorinks. … Not only is the manuscript complete, so, too, are the illustrations.”
Category: words
Scientists Have Made A Machine That Can Write Poetry (And Fool Readers Into Believing A Human Wrote It)
“A neural network trained on thousands of lines of poetry has tried its hand at penning its own rhymes that mimic certain forms of verse. Its best efforts even fool people into thinking they’re reading the words of a human poet, rather than the algorithmic output of a cold-hearted AI.”
Do University Teaching Jobs Stunt Writers?
“Even in Britain, whose elite universities were once home to elbow-patched, tweed-jacketed writers never burdened with the expectation of production — E. M. Forster famously spent more than two decades as an honorary fellow at King’s College, Cambridge, without ever publishing another novel — technocratic administrators have managed to extend their control over writers to a dispiriting degree.”
Jane Austen Had The Best Words
There’s a reason her work has thrived since it was published. “Her novels, reasonably successful in their day, were innovative, even revolutionary, in ways her contemporaries did not fully recognize. Some of the techniques she introduced — or used more effectively than anyone before — have been so incorporated into how we think about fiction that they seem to have always been there.” Also, ask the data!
Thoreau’s Environmental Legacy Isn’t Just About Walden Pond
Thoreau’s 200th birthday is July 12. With lectures, essays, and of course Walden, he helped inspire parks in cities, but also the National Park System. “The true largess of Thoreau, then, can perhaps best be discovered by experiencing one of the outdoor temples that his ‘in wildness’ declaration helped protect.”
Margaret Atwood Addresses The ‘Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again’ Thing In An Interview With Junot Diaz
Also, Diaz gives Atwood the idea to get Drake to cameo in Season 2 of Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu. But on an unfunny note, she says, “The real question is, if the United States were going to have a totalitarianism, what kind of totalitarianism would it be? We’ve had all kinds in the world, including atheist ones. But if the U.S. were ever going to go down that path, what would be the device under which they would do it?”
It’s Time To Rediscover The Greatness Of Mary McCarthy
Ignore Norman Mailer and his evaluation of McCarthy’s books. “This is a perfect moment, in terms of the progress of our political development as well as the sand through feminism’s hourglass, for the Library of America’s release of McCarthy’s complete fiction. The two volumes comprise a body of work that retains startling and unsettling relevance. “
If Jane Austen Lived Today, She Would Definitely Have A Twitter Feed Critiquing ‘The Bachelor’
“It seems that long before reality TV binges and bodice-rippers, women were indulging in entertainment that mixed straightforward pleasure with the appreciation of unintentional camp.”
Have Journalists Forgotten How To Write For Regular People?
“Despite the increasingly complex and crucial stories dotting the national landscape—health insurance policy, North Korea, immigration, Syria—many daily newspapers and wire services are failing to include even a sentence of background early in their stories to give readers the tools to slide further into a complicated issue… I’m not talking about “dumbing down” the news as much as making it more user-friendly, and journalists who fail to do the latter are squandering their brief but real chances to invest new readers.”
How To Bring Up A Child To Love Reading Books: An Online Guide
Pamela Paul and Maria Russo of The New York Times Book Review say that “raising a reader is fun, rewarding and relatively easy” – and explain how. (First key hint is not to wait to get started: “Baby books are a necessity. … Read out loud, every day. Any book. … The content doesn’t matter.” And audiobooks don’t count.)