Baroudi examines how writing transforms the fear of forgetting into a way of inhabiting time, rather than simply enduring it.

It could be a symptom of psychological disorder — “making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons” — but that’s how Orwell describes his own beginnings (“the lonely child’s habit”) ...

A Hearst editorial from 1900 serves as a reminder that opinion writing should set out to disturb the public peace, says the ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about motivation recently. What drives us to do the things we do? Why do we make the choices we make? Why do we write, and who is it for? Because if we can understand our ...

Operating a restaurant is one of the toughest jobs around. The hours are brutal, the margins are thin, and there’s no guarantee the public will show up. So when we publish a restaurant review, it’s ...

Synopsis: A short play following a group of passionate young writers with allegorical names, who once filled pages of writing together. When they are tragically reunited, see how they brainstorm, ...

Living in a growing city like Knoxville obviously means seeing a regular influx of new arrivals - new residents and new businesses - on a regular basis. As one of the latter myself (just hitting the ...

In 1994, when I first started writing fiction, I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. It was my boss—the managing editor of the newspaper where I ...