So far, generative artificial intelligence models have been able to pull off only crude assimilations of fiction writing, but OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman today said his firm has trained a model ...

For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.

Fiction as Resistance Especially now, in a world where healthcare is driven by ideology over evidence, to write fiction is not an escape; it is a form of resistance. By inventing stories, I reclaim ...

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This is part of Alaska Authors, an occasional series about authors and other literary figures with ties to the 49th state. “I always had an idea in the back of my head, ever since I was a kid, that I ...

When I was 16, I attended a writing workshop with a group of precocious young poets, where we all tried very hard to prove who among us was the most tortured upper-middle-class teenager. One boy ...