science fiction William Gibson on how he coined the word "cyberspace" (video) David Pescovitz

labor Writers are out for the summer, and the strike is hitting home Harry Hannigan

star wars Season 2 of Andor to continue production without writers due to strike Thom Dunn

protests Genius picket signs from the Hollywood writers' strike David Pescovitz

fake news A romance author allegedly faked her own suicide to boost book sales Thom Dunn

books Cory Doctorow interviewed about cyberpunk and surveillance capitalism in The New Yorker David Pescovitz

Comics Oscar Issac enters the world of comics Devin Nealy

video games WRITE 'N' FIGHT is a new video game where famous authors punch each other Thom Dunn

alcohol Why many writers drink David Pescovitz

writing Tokyo's new Manuscript Writing Cafe demands customers make progress toward their writerly goals David Pescovitz

writing Help this "Ghost Class" of speculative fiction writers get to the Clarion Writer's Workshop Thom Dunn

writing Read Joan Didion's entire "lost" university commencement address from 1975 David Pescovitz

cool Cool died with Joan Didion Rob Beschizza

books Joan Didion, author and pioneering "New Journalist," RIP David Pescovitz

writers The letter that William Burroughs wrote Truman Capote, cursing his career and taking back his talent Gareth Branwyn

science fiction Help the Alpha Young Writers Workshop for its 20th anniversary Thom Dunn

poetry bell hooks, pioneering feminist poet and activist, RIP David Pescovitz

libraries Read Robert Louis Stevenson's handwritten manuscript for "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Gareth Branwyn

writers Rod Serling talks to college students about the craft of writing Gareth Branwyn

authors Strange TV interview with Samuel Beckett in which he says absolutely nothing David Pescovitz