As some theatre 🎭 observers head for Enmore Theatre tonight to watch “I Catch Killers” few might be aware that there was a previous play entitled “the murder of the dance floor” taking place last night …
Dance floor collapses during Genesis Owusu concert at Sydney's Enmore Theatre
Do you worry about the effectiveness of your writing style? As emerging scholars, perfecting the craft of writing is an essential component of developing as graduate students, and yet resources for honing these skills are largely under utilized. Larry McEnerney, Director of the University of Chicago's Writing Program, led this session in an effort to communicate helpful rules, skills, and resources that are available to graduate students interested in further developing their writing style.
The Craft of Writing Effectively
The power of seeing only the questions in a piece of writing
Why modern novels are so boring Writers who forget bourgeois aspiration lose a dimension
Spotify, Kindle, and other vehicles for digital art have deprived us of one of life’s great joys: the lost art of browsing Art of Browsing
Why did so many women writers - Fuller, Wollstonecraft, Eliot, Wharton - get starts reviewing and translating Goethe?
The March/April issue of World Literature Today is now out -- more than enough reading material for the weekend. 'New African Voices' are spotlighted, but there's quite a bit beyond that too.
Is it too soon for “the great coronavirus novel”? Attempts are underway; the early results are not promising
Salvador Dalí had a pet ocelot. Judy Chicago was rejected from art school. What’s the value of art-world trivia? /trivia world /
At 87, Wendell Berry, author of 52 books, refuses to hang it up. His latest has something to offend just about everyone Berry
It’s not about the art. It’s not about the money. It’s not about the donors. It’s not about the audience. It’s not about the artistic “vision.” It’s not about the board. It’s not about giving employment to local artists. It’s not about employing a staff. It’s not about the...
People using writing assistants at work might love sending polished emails to colleagues or crafting smarter company social media posts. Their company’s IT and legal teams might not love the fact that some of those tools use their content to train their AI. When people use Grammarly, a popular writing software, they grant the company permission to use the content they write in the tool to help adjust and improve its machine-learning models. Another writing assistant, Bramework, has terms and conditions requiring users to give the company irrevocable, perpetual and worldwide rights to use, reproduce and distribute the content they write when using the system. Grammarly uses human linguists along with AI tools such as natural-language processing and machine learning to automate suggestions for ways to make writing crisper, more grammatically correct or even more diplomatic. Machine-learning models need data sets on which to train and improve, and Grammarly employs textual data from its users in the training data it uses to improve its products and identify new ways people might use them…”
In Custodia Legis: ” We’ve all been asked the question, what do you want to be when you grow up? Last year, I attended a preschool graduation where four to five year olds were asked this very question. Their answers varied: a policeman, an ice cream truck driver, a teacher. Perhaps unsurprisingly, no one mentioned becoming a lawyer or a foreign law specialist. So I polled various staff members of the Law Library and asked, was there a character in art or literature that inspired you to a career as a legal professional? Though I was looking for specific characters, I received some interesting answers to this question. Some people, like Beth Osborne, said they absorbed various legal shows growing up, like Law and Order, but there wasn’t a specific character that inspired them. Similarly, there wasn’t a specific character for Ruth Levush, but rather she “liked the challenge of legal analytical thinking to which I was introduced by learning Talmud (Jewish law) as an academic subject in high school in Israel.” She was also inspired by an American TV show popular at the time, about defense attorneys representing innocent defendants. Regardless of how each of my colleagues entered into the field of law, I’m glad they’re all here…”
