Modern Language Association

"Recently, I received a strange text from a new acquaintance. 'You have your own biography???' it read. 'How did you neglect to tell me this?' This was news to me. I went to Amazon to investigate. There it was. A biography. . . had been released nearly a year earlier, in August 2025. My life story had a mottled brown cover and a publisher I’d never heard of before."

I Got Slopped Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?

"Journalist William Burrill, author of Hemingway: The Toronto Years (1994), later uncovered some 30 additional long-lost stories, including several written under pseudonyms like John Hadley or Peter Jackson. . . As Burrill notes, Hemingway adopted pseudonyms after reaching his quota with the Star, allowing him to sell additional stories and earn much-needed income for his young family."

How a forgotten Toronto story shows Hemingway beginning to invent himself as a fiction writer Toronto was both where Hemingway deepened his journalism and where he began honing the literary techniques that would shape his fiction.

"Many or most of these fearsome characters are familiar to us even if we’ve never read the Odyssey, or indeed seen any of its adaptations. In everyday speech, we invoke the sirens’ call when describing an irresistible temptation, or Scylla and Charybdis when describing any set of equal and opposite pitfalls."

The Origins of the Monsters in Homer’s Odyssey: The Cyclops, Sirens, Scylla & More Despite having been composed about two and a half millennia before the invention of cinema, Homer's Odyssey has offered tempting material to generation after generation of filmmakers.