Writing

• Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90
• SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator
• The origin of the world’s first travel blog
• Microsoft 'to replace journalists with robots'
• The world 'traveller' who never left home
• Would Plato tweet? The Ancient Greek guide to social media
• The epic adventures of the Gilgamesh Dream tablet
• JK Rowling table saved from cafe gutted by fire
• Essay mills: 'Contract cheating' to be made illegal in England
• Isaac Asimov on The David Letterman Show, October 21, 1980
• Gilgamesh Dream Tablet: Iraq puts looted artefact on display
• For sale: baby shoes, never worn
• Eight-year-old's handwritten novel takes Idaho town by storm
• Headline Words
• 'How to murder your husband' writer sentenced for murdering husband
• Stephen King testifies against merger of publishing giants
• The messages that survived civilisation's collapse
• The Rosetta Stone: The real ancient codebreakers
• The mysterious doodles hidden in a 1,300-year-old book
• Why do some people 'mirror-write'?
• Tom Hanks' debut novel lifts lid on movie industry, and his on-set behaviour
• New York City's eight best literary venues
• Woodward and Bernstein: Watergate reporters warn of the limitations of AI