Every writer is different. The path to telling stories about our world is hard won, and the space that’s necessary to allow us to find our respective voices differs. The world we carry in our heads is arguably the most important space of all. It is a space whose suffocations and seductions compete for our attention. - LitHub
Despite all the one-click-away distractions, my peers had insightful queries, if rather too many, interrupting lectures as if pressing every hyperlink. Rarely were they the moralizing young bores depicted by moralizing old bores in the culture wars. Mainly, they worried about finding jobs. - The New York Times
Well, maybe not J.D. Vance. But everyone else, thanks to decades - a century - of devastating floods and mudslides, mountaintop removal and mining disasters. - Book Riot
Maybe the problem is the reporter’s clickbait comprehension? “Young readers are eminently capable of critically engaging in long form content, but they’re rightfully demanding a seat at the table where decisions about texts are being made.” - Teaching & Learning
“It feels incorrect, to have inspiration strike in the midst of grief, but what probably happened was that I was trying to get away somehow, to tell myself a distracting story. And a distracting story it was.” - The Guardian (UK)
“There is no overarching chronology or guideline of how one behaves as an Asian in this country. One can immigrate and have no knowledge of the history and burden of yellowface, the Chinese Exclusion Act or the incarceration of Japanese Americans.” - LitHub
Helen Castor, writer about monarchs, says it has been extraordinary “to watch what happens when a leader is so consumed with the idea of power and authority as their own right that they are willing to attack and indeed break not only rules but the rule of law.” - The Guardian (UK)
“The decision to restore our print publication frequency to pre-internet levels was not made lightly, but it also seemed logical, given the strength and reach of our magazine, and the wide acclaim it receives." - The Atlantic
The fact that the Academy has alighted on a deserving, interesting winner of the prize continues to be strange and miraculous, even if the twenty-first century has had far more hits than misses, many more recipients in the Doris Lessing zone—i.e., timeless—rather than the Rudyard Kipling zone—i.e., timeful (pejorative). - The New Republic
The group is clear that they don't wish to ban responsible AI use outright, but instead seek to eradicate instances of badly-sourced, hallucination-filled, or otherwise unhelpful AI content that erodes the overall quality of the web's decades-old information repository. - Futurism
South Korean writer Han Kang's win as the 2024 Nobel Literature laureate is a triumph not only for Korean literature but also a reminder of the huge reach and influence of small press publishing, which takes on so much of the heavy work of introducing literature in translation to a wider audience. - The Guardian
"One thing that doesn’t seem to drive most people to libraries? Financial hardship. In fact, the higher your income, the more regularly you avail yourself of their ... services. And while we can’t say for sure, it seems bookstores and libraries complement each other more than they compete." - The Washington Post (MSN)
I believe the first person to master the fictional multiverse was the 19th-century French novelist, Honoré de Balzac, in his monumental work La Comédie Humaine (The Human Comedy, 1829-1847). - The Conversation