Articles by Rhian Sasseen
May 1, 2013
The Count 0
“And who could disagree? Joyce Carol Oates expressed her view on Twitter: ‘Wikipedia bias an accurate reflection of universal bias. All (male) writers are writers; a (woman) writer is a woman writer.’” Wikipedia has got a women writers problem.
May 1, 2013
“My life work decided” 0
“The most important year of life. Every emotion and my life work decided. Miserable and ecstatic but a great success.” What F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his financial ledgers the year he married Zelda Sayre and sold This Side of Paradise.
April 30, 2013
The Plagiarist 0
“How I wish he’d stuck to being himself. Instead, he chose to be me.” How it feels to have one’s poetry plagiarized.
April 30, 2013
The Time-Traveler’s Dictionary 1
Say you find yourself transported 6,000 years in the past – would you still be able to talk to your fellow English-speakers?
April 30, 2013
The Remains of the Screen 0
“Any reasonably skilled novelist can evoke on the page the texture of memory, drawing the reader into the half-remembered, the blurred edges, the nervous nostalgia, the meandering associations across time and geography. In contrast, flashbacks on screen tend always to be clumsy beasts, announcing their arrival with unwanted fanfare and knocked-over furniture. Why is this?” [...]
April 30, 2013
Too Many Choices 0
Should you go to grad school? Should you not go to grad school? Should you stop reading trend pieces on going to graduate school?