Tag: Writing
The 5,000-year history of writer’s block
Joyce Kinkead, Utah State University
Ann Patchett, who has written eight novels and five books of nonfiction, says that...
Handwritten diaries may feel old fashioned, but they offer insights that...
Paula Vene Smith, Grinnell College
The first time I taught a college course called “The London Diary” for young...
How Octavia E. Butler mined her boundless curiosity to forge a...
Alyssa Collins, University of South Carolina
In 2021, Alyssa Collins was awarded a yearlong Octavia E. Butler Fellowship from...
How poetry can help people get through hard times – 4...
Alvin Buyinza, The Conversation
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian American writer Ilya Kaminsky’s poem “We Lived Happily During the...
How a Black writer in 19th-century America used humor to combat...
Rodney Taylor, University of South Carolina
Any writer has to struggle with the dilemma of staying true to their...
How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry
Jason Miller, North Carolina State University
In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath’s private letters, which had previously not been...
When Black kids – shut out from the whitewashed world of...
Paige Gray, Savannah College of Art and Design
Hanging on the wall in my office is the framed cover...
How Hemingway felt about fatherhood
Verna Kale, Pennsylvania State University
Ernest Hemingway was affectionately called “Papa,” but what kind of dad was he?
In my role as Associate Editor of the...
EXPLORING NATURE
‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will have Americans paying higher prices for dirtier energy
Daniel Cohan, Rice University
When congressional Republicans decided to cut some Biden-era energy subsidies to help fund their One...
