OpenAI Model Writes Literary Metafiction on Grief and AI. An Analysis

Sam Altman said he was “really struck” by it. I was more confused than struck, which is why I was … More

Giving Thanks for 2024 and Making Resolutions for 2025

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What Sophie Kinsella’s 2020 novel can teach us about writing a romance or any love story. Spoilers included. I love … More

This novel, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, is centered around a baby that surprises everyone, including the reader. … More

Some of them look like American English words but mean something completely different. Examples include pissed, dishy, homely, jumper, mooch, … More

A long time ago a very modern friend of mine here in Romania had ex libris book stamps (“This book … More

I was at a mall yesterday and entered there the Carturesti Bookstore, one of my favorites. Their store there is … More

Here are forty-three popular Romanian expressions, most of them funny and some of them irreverent, to delight speakers of English. … More

There was something that nagged at me quite a lot recently when I read a piece about the late Nora … More

I’ve always had several books on the go at once, and rarely found one of them so unputdownable as to … More