Depending on the geographic locus, the beginning of the semester is upon us and we have begun to do real work, finishing the musical chairs game of finding seats for students in the classes they need ...
Roxane Gay knows the power of the written word. The editor, professor, cultural critic and author of the best-selling essay collection “Bad Feminist” and the memoir “Hunger,” Gay has earned a devoted ...
At the Big Class afterschool Writing Studio kids must finish their homework before starting creative writing projects. What does it take to learn how to write well? Time and support. But the school ...
In "Frames of Reference," one of the chapters in John McPhee's "Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process," this longtime staff writer for the New Yorker visits his granddaughter's 12th-grade English class.