Felicia Gullotta // Blog Writer Though living in 2016, an age where technology is easily accessible and widely embraced, there are still backlash against digital publishing. There is a clinging on to traditional print publishing and digital publishing seems to…
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Why Can’t All Books be Good Movies?
Victoria Kiarsis // Blog Writer I have seen numerous films that have been adapted from novels, and I’m also currently taking a class called Novel into Film. What I’ve learned through my experience inside and outside of this class is…
What Amazon’s Top 10 Bestsellers of 2016 Say about Publishing
Jonathan Smith // Blog Writer Amazon, one of the largest booksellers in the world, publishes a list of its top 100 bestsellers each year. Though there are still two months left in the year, it is presumed that the top…
The Risks of Publishing
Victoria Kiarsis // Blog Writer City on Fire was released in October of 2015—you’ve probably heard of it, but you probably haven’t read it. In one year Garth Risk Hallberg’s book—his middle name incredibly ironic—has sold only 65,000 hardcover…
Authors Behind the Page: The Boston Book Festival
Felicia Gullotta // Blog Writer It’s a crisp autumn morning on October 15; the sun is hanging lazily in the sky, as reluctant to move as the many Bostonians still nestled in their beds. But as the sun continues its…
Review of The Hidden Letters of Velta B. by Gina Ochsner
Felicia Gullotta // Blog Writer If you were an ailing mother trying to tell your son his life’s story, where would you begin? Would you begin with his birth? Maybe a moment that stood out in his childhood? You could…
Bob Dylan Should Not Have Won the Nobel Prize for Literature
Mary Baker // Special Guest Writer I am here to give what is undoubtedly an unpopular opinion. It’s pretty clearly stated in the title, but just for emphasis: everyone’s favorite folk singer Bob Dylan should not have won the…
James Patterson and the State of Fiction
Christina Bagni // Blog Writer Stephen King, who sees himself as “the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries,” once called James Patterson “a terrible writer, but very successful.” Now, it’s fine to eat junk food and it’s fine…
Make Lit Class Great Again: Maus and Maus II
Christina Bagni // Blog Writer Oh, yes, I’m well versed in comic books. I have about three issues of the vintage DC Comics Powerpuff Girls series in my attic, and I casually buy Archies at the supermarket, so clearly I…
From One Writer to Another
Daniel Gonzalez // Blog Writer As a Writing, Literature, and Publishing major, I’m constantly writing, whether for fun or because the vast majority of my classes (all of them) require it on a regular basis, and at some point you…