Our hunter's moon issue is filled, but we're still open to submissions. We've had all-prose-poetry issues, this one is story-fattened which is nice. Hey, you know that totally weird thing you're working on? Finish it and send it to us. gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Beautiful braided essay, Mary. I love the way you weave the story of the trees on the street in Paris with your friend Margaret's story. Well crafted.
I've written about AI's shortcomings plenty, but this essay by Ted Chiang truly sums it all up perfectly. This feels like the last word on the topic. "Why A.I. Isnât Going to Make Art" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
@TheEconomist: Gaza is the worst of war zones, writes David Nott in a guest essay. âEven in the midst of vicious wars such as in Yemen or Syria, people had access to basic life-saving medicines. Not so in Gaza,â the trauma surgeon says https://t.co/16T1tJNF8k
"When I was five you promised to buy any pet I wanted if I told the divorce court Iâd live with you in Malibu. Your mother canât afford the life I can. When I said no, I became a girl split in two." - Becs Tetley in @reckonreview.bsky.social#cnf#personalessayreckonreview.com/black-limous...
I wrote a short essay for PBS interpreting a 1969 White House memo on climate change. A fascinating window into the moral clarity of the issue decades before the disinformation wars and politicization. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote this prescient warning about the consequences of burning fossil fuels in 1969.
The carpenter bees are buzzing and we're open for submissions! Send us your wild, springy, buzzing personal essays and creative non fiction! @reckonreview.bsky.social#cnf#essays#litmagreckonreview.com/submissions/
"A script I was raised to recite. You know the one: he offers, she refuses, he insists, she accepts. So far, so good: he offered, I refused. Now I wait." - Leighton Schreyer Read it for the rhythm! In @reckonreview.bsky.social#cnf#personalessayreckonreview.com/ladies-first/
"I was expected to be a fearless girl. It was demanded of me. Of all of us." - @yvonnec.bsky.social@damemagazine.bsky.social#essaywww.damemagazine.com/2024/03/21/w...
Three days after the Fearless Girl statue was installed facing down Wall Streetâs Charging Bull in Manhattanâs Financial District, a man dressed in a suit and tie was photographed âhumping the statue ...
"All we had were our hands and the slopes of our bodies, the warmth of our skin, and it didnât occur to us that this might not be enough." - Loretta Velle The gorgeousness of this language. Read Rockhound in @ShortReadsOrg #cnfwww.short-reads.org/rockhound/?r...
by Loretta Velle | The things we collect.