Emma Shacochis // Blog Assistant Whether you’ll be interning, returning to work, or completing summer classes over the next few months, it’s undeniable that you’ll have at least a bit more time in your schedule for pleasure reading. There’s nothing…
Julia Brukx // Blog Assistant On January 1, 2021, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s chef d’oeuvre The Great Gatsby entered the public domain. First published in 1926, the statute of limitations had passed for Gatsby to remain in the possession of Fitzgerald’s…
Emma Shacochis // Blog Assistant Frederica “Freddy” Riley feels like she’s lucky. Her girlfriend, Laura Dean, is, on paper, the girl of her dreams: confident, popular, and beautiful. The only issue is that, almost every time a holiday rolls around,…
Andi Smith // Blog Writer Rachel Barenbaum, author of A Bend in the Stars, told me that she wanted to be able to see her characters’ worlds as well as they did: “If they’re on a dock, I want to…
Ana Hein // Blog Writer I am a Creative Writing major currently enrolled in my fifth writing workshop at Emerson; I took my first one as a second-semester freshman, and am now a second-semester junior. Their topics run the gamut…
Laura Elias // Blog Writer We’ve made it a month into the new year, and to keep our minds on the future, let’s look at some 2021 book releases by authors of color to support. Get your pens ready! This…
Ana Hein // Blog Writer Moving is never easy, but moving with a large quantity of books possesses its own set of problems. As someone who just moved across the country with over 200 books, take it from me: these…
Allison Armijo // Blog Writer Queer literature is fantastic, but why is it almost exclusively fantastical? Elizabeth Whitney’s article, “Capitalizing on Camp: Greed and the Queer Marketplace,” does not directly approach this issue: it rather focuses on how queer content…
Alli Armijo // Blog Writer What makes you you? What is it that makes a woman a woman? If such existential questions as these keep you up at night, drag queens Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova have got just the…
Julia Brukx // Blog Assistant The city of Salem, Massachusetts, site of the infamous seventeenth-century witch trials and bustling October tourist attraction, announced recently that they would be shutting down for the two weeks before Halloween—traditionally their biggest weekends of…
