One creative writing lecturer requested anonymity due to fears of professional retaliation. Pseudonyms and gender neutral pronouns were used to protect sources’ identities and improve readability. Many of Stanford’s creative writing lecturers…
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Shower Thoughts: “Taking Back the Night” in daylight
Content warning: This story includes references to sexual violence. Dan Kubota’s column ‘Shower Thoughts’ explores those thoughts that you have when you zone out in the shower and let the warm water…
‘The program of no’: Creative writing program faces lecturer shortages
Two creative writing lecturers requested anonymity due to fears of professional retaliation. Pseudonyms and gender neutral pronouns were used to protect sources’ identities and improve readability. Rose Whitmore, a former Jones lecturer,…
‘I was writing my own role model’: Bonnie Garmus on ‘Lessons in Chemistry’
When Bonnie Garmus wrote Lessons in Chemistry, her novel that spent 58 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, she was “writing [her] own role model.” At Thursday’s Cubberley Lecture, moderated…
A postcard from Ribka’s bedroom: Things I didn’t know in Autumn
“A Postcard from Ribka’s Bedroom” delivers truths — harsh and kind. Can a truth even be harsh, kind, subjective or objective, Ribka Desta asks. As she pens in her postcards, perhaps it…
Dear Diary: To be just kids
Dear Diary combines the intimacy of a diary-like narrative with the writer’s own experiences, little and big, as well as politics and culture. In a letter to Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe writes that…
A new chapter at The Daily
Nothing compares to the rush that comes with a 3 a.m. publication — hectic conversations with editors, debates over headlines and sometimes colorful feedback on articles. Except maybe the existential panic as I…
Love and change
I often come back to the time I shared with this special person. When we met, I did not have a handle on much in life (I still don’t). So much of…
Ben’s Column: For Louise Glück, 1943-2023
As they have been for many, Louise Glück’s poems have been among the great gifts of my life. I never got to meet her, but by now that voice has become native…