Too Intimidated (or Danger Averse) to Arrange a Writing Retreat?

Photograph by Sarah Noltner on Unsplash At the moment’s put up is by author and e book coach Amy Goldmacher. She is main a cruise writing retreat September 3–10 from New York Metropolis to Southampton, England, on the Queen Mary 2. Within the fall of 2022, I went on my first ever writing retreat, per week in […]


Haruki Murakami on Rethinking Early Work

Haruki Murakami’s new novel, “The Metropolis and Its Unsure Partitions,” can be a return to earlier works: a novella he revealed in Japan, in 1980, when he was thirty-one, and the novel “Laborious-Boiled Wonderland and the Finish of the World,” revealed 5 years later, which was, partially, an try and rethink that novella. Within the […]


David L. Boren: My Expensive Good friend, by Nick Hathaway

WLT’s govt director, editors, and workers all deeply mourn the passing of David L. Boren, who died on February 20, 2025. Nick Hathaway, who served as a vice chairman on the College of Oklahoma throughout Boren’s tenure, provided the next tribute on Fb, which we’re happy to publish within the late president’s honor.  David L. […]


Don’t Tread on Me—Until You’re a Billionaire with a Ketamine Dependancy, in Which Case I Enthusiastically Help It

Pay attention, I don’t know find out how to say this, however I feel I’m lastly okay with being trodden on. Just a bit. Simply sufficient to really feel the reassuring weight of a billionaire’s boot urgent gently towards my liberty-loving neck. For years, I stood tall towards tyranny. I flew my DON’T TREAD ON […]


How Do You Write an Opera Primarily based on Moby-Dick?

Gene Scheer. {Photograph} by Kate Russell. In early March, a brand new manufacturing of Moby-Dick will open on the Metropolitan Opera. In some methods, Moby-Dick already has all the things an opera wants: narrative drama, memorable characters, excessive stakes, and even the excessive seas. However to adapt Herman Melville’s basic textual content—typically known as probably […]



Sharing GRATITUDE…a Well timed Subject to Talk about with Households and College students

What’s GRATITUDE? Gratitude is excess of being merely ‘grateful’. In accordance with Brian Tracy, a Canadian-American motivational speaker, these are the “4 A’s of Gratitude”: Appreciation: Expressing gratitude for folks and issues in your life Approval: Praising and giving approval for concepts, recommendations, and affordable effort  Admiration: Complimenting folks on their accomplishments and traits Consideration: Listening to others with […]


Le parole della sostenibilità di Andrea Ferrazzi

Vi segnaliamo oggi il nuovo libro di Andrea Ferrazzi, Le parole della sostenibilità. Il futuro è nelle nostre mani. Il quantity, pubblicato da Marietti1820, con la prefazione del Cardinale Matteo Maria Zuppi e la postfazione di Filippo Jannacopulos, affronta in maniera profonda e accessibile le sfide globali che caratterizzano il nostro tempo. Il titolo stesso, […]