A Darker Shade of Magic is an extraordinarily fun book. V.E. Schwab crafts an exceedingly enjoyable, vivid world whose sheer concept feels pulled from the wishes of my younger, Victorian-lit-and-anime-loving-self.…
Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women gives us an amazing chance to discuss narrative distance, pacing, and authorial intent in writing. This is, in part, because it didn’t really…
Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea is an enjoyable, important read. Le Guin’s prose is, as always, a sort of poetry and music, and her worldbuilding shows us…
Four weeks ago, I posted an article about getting started in a new art. And, for my last post, I continued the theme by teaching you how to build the…
A couple weeks ago, I posted an article about getting started in the arts. It was a “call to action,” a rallying cry for people who might be procrastinating, or…
I’m putting this comment up here, so that if you come away from this article with only one thing, it’s this: if there’s any art or project you’ve wanted to…