Three of Maine’s public universities received failing grades in 2023 for one of the most critical things they do: prepare future educators to teach kids how to read. The National Council on Teacher ...

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Bird by Bird encouraged would-be writers to blast past their hang-ups and embrace “shitty first drafts.” But there’s more to ...

Harry Styles just ended his quiet era in the most Harry way possible. No big announcement, no rollout, just an unexpected YouTube upload titled "Forever, Forever" that immediately sent fans into ...

This past year, a computer scientist named Tuhin Chakrabarty tried to coax artificial intelligence into producing great writing. Chakrabarty, who had recently completed a Ph.D. at Columbia University, ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

In his 1988 doorstop “The Satanic Verses,” one of Salman Rushdie’s characters muses, “To meet a writer is, usually, to be disappointed.” It’s a classic bit of self-deprecation that, in this case, does ...

The cast has been revealed for the upcoming industry reading of Can’t Hardly Wait the Musical!, written by Sinead Daly (Amazon’s The Summer I Turned Pretty, Netflix’s Dirty John, Upcoming Twilight TV ...

The cast of Sparkler stars Michael J. Burg (“Orange Is The New Black”, The Actors Studio member), Theatre World Award recipient Stephanie Styles (Kiss Me, Kate; Apple TV’s “Loot”), Cameron Forster, ...

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“A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are actually teaching ourselves how to ...

AI writing’s cadence isn’t just clipped and dramatic. It makes everything feel like the world is ending – and it is exhausting to read. Six months ago, you could spot AI-generated text by its polished ...