In 1969, French author Georges Perec wrote La Disparition, an entire novel that does not contain the letter E. In 1994, Gilbert Adair translated it into English as A Void - also without a single E.
In the nearly 50 years since his untimely passing at 42 in 1977, Elvis Presley’s mythological status has only grown stronger, and recent films like Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis (2022) and Sofia Coppola’s ...
A woman contends that Amy Griffin’s story of being sexually abused, as described in “The Tell,” was based on assaults that she herself suffered. By Katherine Rosman and Elisabeth Egan Amy Griffin, a ...
My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of ...
When my youngest foster daughter was in treatment for her severe eating disorder, one of her therapies involved writing a trauma narrative. In 11 single-spaced pages, both sides, she documented all ...