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Something changed when, toward the end of elementary school, I discovered a whole new genre of story: fan fiction. It was 1998 or so, and I had fallen hard for Hanson, a band of boys just slightly ...

This past year, a computer scientist named Tuhin Chakrabarty tried to coax artificial intelligence into producing great writing. Chakrabarty, who had recently completed a Ph.D. at Columbia University, ...

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In the high-stakes world of college admissions, there’s one lesson every hopeful applicant should learn early: sometimes, what you leave out of your essay matters more than what you put in. As Sophie ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Essays and early short stories by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee will be published this fall. “The Land of Sweet Forever” compiles short fiction Lee wrote in the years ...

FILE - Author Harper Lee appears at a ceremony honoring new members of the Alabama Academy of Honor at the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., on Aug. 20, 2007. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File) NEW YORK (AP) — ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Essays and early short ...