Kyle Labe//Blog Writer The summer before my freshman year of college, I noticed something: no one ever seems to talk about that period in a young adult’s life. It’s a moment of displacement—you’re finished with high school; you’ve yet to…
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When Fiction Gets Real: Dealing with the Death of Your Favorite Fictional Character
Camila Fagen Guitron // Blog Writer Anthony Rodriguez, Emerson College student and avid reader, recalls sitting down with the last book in the Divergent trilogy when his favorite character—who will not be named for spoiler reasons—suddenly died. “It felt like…
Stricken Ill with Ferrante Fever
Kyle Labe//Blog Writer In Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, the third installment in Elena Ferrante’s triumphant Neapolitan Novels, the narrator lists for a page everything she wants to do away with, everything on which she’d like to “spit”:…
The Hero’s Journey and Modern Story Structure
Jonathan Smith // Blog Writer Humans have always had an insatiable appetite for compelling and relatable stories. Philosophers and writers alike have often tried to categorize the essence of an enduring story, with one of the oldest and most popular…
Challenging Gender Stereotypes One Children’s Book at a Time
Angie Haas//Blog Writer Children’s books are perhaps the least diverse genre. Looking back on the books I read as a child — from Curious George to Where the Wild Things Are to all of the Dr. Seuss’ books — they…
Book Review: The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn
Alice Lynch//Blog Writer It isn’t often that a book can keep you up through the night. It’s even rarer that it keeps you up through the next, or the next, or the next. But A. J. Finn’s debut novel, The…
So, You’re in a Reading Slump?
Anthony Rodriguez//Blog Writer Reading slumps are possibly the worst thing that can happen to someone, at least in my opinion. Sadly, this happens to the best of us, and life gets in the way of our precious reading time. I,…
This Should Be Where it Ends
Sarah Vincent//Blog Writer Every artist has their own way of displaying hard concepts so that they are accessible to a wide variety of audiences. For those who don’t experience traumatic events personally, there is almost always some form of art…
Creating a Soundtrack for Your Next Read
Jonathan Smith//Blog Writer Ever since I began investing five dollars a month into a monthly music subscription, I have listened to an extraordinary amount of music, perhaps even an unhealthy amount. Though preferences vary greatly from person to person, there…
The Power of Judy Blume
Kyle Labe//Blog Writer Whenever Judy Blume is mentioned in conversation, there seems to be simultaneous nostalgia. Blume inspires an almost ubiquitous adoration, everyone having grown up with her novels, from Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, to Forever…,…