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The Rumpus revealed the author of its Dear Sugar advice column is novelist Cheryl Strayed; the Millions investigates the evolving payment models used by literary magazines; Jesse Eisenberg details how NBA basketball standout Jeremy Lin has helped him through tough times; and other news.
Think about a time or incident from your past when you just barely averted disaster. Write a story about it, but change the circumstances so that the disaster actually happens.
In honor of Black History Month, the folks at Open Road Media put together this collection of interviews in which authors such as Alice Walker, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Virginia Hamilton, and others discuss the significance of storytelling as part of African American culture.
Poet Stanley Kunitz often advised his students to end a poem on an image without explaining it. Write a new poem or revise an old one, ending it with an evocative image left unexplained.
The collected love letters between the poets Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning have been digitized and made freely available online; in the wake of Chris Brown's performance at the recent Grammy Awards, Roxane Gay addresses his diehard fans; GalleyCat explains how to stay positive in the face of rejection; and other news.
Where's Barbie when you need her? "Sweet Talkin' Ken" takes Amy King's poem "Men by the Lips of Women" to creepy extremes in this special Valentine's Day installment of Clips.
Madison, Wisconsin artist Jayne Reid Jackson’s “Art History,” an altered book piece, was created as part of an exhibit called “Cover to Cover,” in which artists use books as materials and inspiration in their pieces. The exhibit was featured in Madison-area public libraries.
Wadi Rum, also known as the Valley of the Moon, is a valley cut into sandstone and granite in southern Jordan. One of the rock formations in the valley was named "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" after the title of an autobiographical account of a British officer, T. E. Lawrence, who based his operations at Wadi Rum during the Arab Revolt of 1917 and 1918.
Brazilian rock band CSS makes some noise in the Lancaster Library in Lancaster, UK, as part of the “Get it Loud in Libraries” series.
Outside of Amman, Jordan, is the ancient city of Petra where, according to Arab tradition, Moses struck a rock with his staff and water gushed forth. The Monastery, Petra's largest monument and a popular tourist destination, dates from the first century BC.
