Tag: writing

• Bruce Sterling. The Wonderful Power of Storytelling

  March 9, 2026

  https://lib.ru/STERLINGB/story.txt more ›

• William Gibson Interview Transcript

  March 6, 2026

  Transcript of William Gibson Interview https://craphound.com/nonfic/transcript.html more ›

• Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?

  December 8, 2025

  If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/magazine/chatbot-writing-style.html?unlocked_article_code=1.508.ClUh.Sb1fCpBAo94F&smid=url-share&ref=platformer.news more ›

• Modernist Blondes

  July 27, 2025

  July 24, 2025 – On Anita Loos’s Great American Novel. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/07/24/modernist-blondes/?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2a54aab99d-TPRMailchimp_20250725_WEEKLY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_35491ea532-2a54aab99d-56488262&mc_cid=2a54aab99d&mc_eid=f0a2685ef4 more ›

• Inside Toni Morrison’s editorial career at Random House.

  June 19, 2025

  Toni Morrison was an editor for 12 years, even as she wrote her own masterpieces. I spoke to her authors about being edited by an icon. https://slate.com/culture/2025/06/toni-morrison-editor-random-house-muhammad-ali.html more ›

• Make Something Heavy

  March 23, 2025

  We instinctively tie weight to value. Gold is solid. Wood is dense. And back when we still printed things on paper, a heavy stapler was a luxury. If something is… more ›

• Jealousy List 2024

  December 7, 2024

  The stories we admired most this year. In Catholicism, envy is one of the seven deadly sins. In professional journalism, it’s a virtue, albeit too seldomly expressed. Which is why… more ›

• “Multiple Worlds Vying to Exist”: Philip K. Dick and Palestine

  November 17, 2024

  When Dick became my chosen writer, at age fourteen, in 1978, with Martian Time-Slip, one of my two or three favorites among his novels, the presence of the Israeli settlement on… more ›

• The Simple Art of Murder

  September 25, 2024

  This is a collection of early short stories and an essay which gave the book its name. The latter is fairly short and its main idea is an argument for… more ›

• ‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’

  September 8, 2024

  Last summer, in Detroit’s St. Paul Church of God in Christ, I watched Bill Cosby summon his inner Malcolm X. It was a hot July evening. Cosby was speaking to… more ›