Moon Fever
First it was a heavenly body—a beacon, or a world, a place where no one could possibly go. Then, from 1969 to 1972, twelve people landed...
Voices in AI – Episode 92: A Conversation with Chris Duffery
[voices_in_ai_byline] About this Episode Episode 92 of Voices in AI features Byron speaking with Chris Duffey about the nature of creativity and how machine intelligence can...
How to Print Web Pages Without Ads and Other Clutter
FabrikaSimf/Shutterstock Articles on the web come with advertisements and other clutter. If you print them, you often get all that junk. But you can cut out...
34 Travel Magazines and Websites That Pay Freelance Writers
When you dream about your writing career, do you picture yourself sitting at a romantic cafe, sunlight streaming through the windows to light up the table?...
DUCKWORTH is Worthy of its Dark Humor Predecessors (plus two giveaways)
I first met author Michael Sussman when I reviewed his debut picture book OTTO GROWS DOWN, illustrated by Scott Magoon. I LOVED IT! In fact, OTTO...
Clarification
To the Editors: In my “The Rules of the Game” I wrote that the 15 percent of Democrats who identified as conservative “were probably mostly older,...
Lincoln The Hack?
To the Editors: James Oakes writes, “It is a commonplace among historians that…in his early career [Lincoln] was something of a Whig Party hack.” I find...
A Power Ranking of Sherlock Holmes Adaptations
When I came to write The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, a book peopled with famous literary characters, I was very excited to create my own...
Why Are So Many Women Rewriting Fairy Tales?
Peg Alford Pursell’s second book, A Girl Goes Into the Forest, contains a collection of 78 short stories exploring moments in the lives of women. Pursell’s first...
7 Unconventional Missing Person Stories
Consider it the first mystery of the missing that they are said to “go” somewhere, somewhere called “missing.” Or maybe missing is less a place, more...
