Hollywood’s Writers Won’t Go on Strike After All
Following nearly two months of negotiation, the Writers Guild of America has reached an agreement with Hollywood’s major studios on health care and wages.
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Is Poetry Poised for a Renaissance?
Pacific Standard recommends The Poetry of Pop and Simulacra, two new books that challenge the outdated way doomsayers define poetry.
A Striking Majority of Hollywood Screenwriters Has Approved a New Writers’ Strike
Yesterday, a decisive majority of film and television writers belonging to the Writers Guild of America approved a…
The Quiet Firebrand Feminism of Emily Dickinson
Though biopics of famous and important people are all the rage these days, it’s little wonder Emily Dickinson…
Creating in an Age of Anxiety, Depression, and Dread
Anxiety can lead to better art, but do the two have to be so mutually intertwined?
Thinking About Writing Literary Fiction?
Go for it. The time has never been better. By James McWilliams James Patterson at the Aol Build…
Excerpts From the Literary Magazine Written by the Homeless: Short, Sweet, Written on a Receipt
A reprint from The Pilgrim.
Excerpts From the Literary Magazine Written by the Homeless: Calmness vs. Chaos
A reprint from The Pilgrim.
Excerpts From the Literary Magazine Written by the Homeless: Keeping Clothes Clean
A reprint from The Pilgrim.
Radical Efforts to End Homelessness: Street Scribes
The story of the literary magazine whose authors are all homeless.