Ana Hein // Blog Writer Because I can run my hand down their spines in the bookstore and peace falls over me. I imagine all the people that have also read this book and wonder what they thought about it:…
Why I Love Books (In No Particular Order)
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Big Fan: A Review of Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, Part 2
Ana Hein // Blog Writer The film is a perfect adaptation of the novel, except in one regard: its ending. The novel ends with Jo subverting reader expectations by marrying a man nearly twenty years her senior who harshly criticizes…
Big Fan: A Review of Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, Part 1
Ana Hein // Blog Writer It’s a classic personality test: are you a Meg, Jo, Beth, or Amy? I have pondered over this question at length ever since I first read Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, Little Women, back in…
For Readers in Want of a Good Read: A Review of Pride and Prejudice
Kately Rivero // Blog Writer Ask any avid reader to choose their favorite book and you’ll instead get a staggering list. The singular choice of only one favorite book can be daunting, but favorites nonetheless we have. I have personally…
A Literary Tour of Boston
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…
Tips and Tricks to Navigating AWP
Olivia Smith // Blog Writer You may have never heard of it, but the Association of Writers and Writing Programs can be a huge resource to any aspiring writer or MFA candidate. Each year, AWP hosts a huge conference with…
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…
Don’t Have a Major Meltdown – What I Learned from Switching Majors
Alice Lynch//Blog Writer Ask an Emerson student why they chose this school and most will point to the college’s excellence in and dedication to the arts. We aren’t coughing up ungodly sums of cash for the food, the cramped dorms,…
Pub Club Takes New York: a Review of the New York Connection Trip with Career Services
Madison Heim-Jinivisian//Undergraduate Students for Publishing Co-President Each year, Emerson’s Office of Career Services sponsors an event called the New York Connection trip. The trip gives current students an opportunity to join Emerson alumni and friends in New York City for…
Finding Yourself in a Book
Angie Haas//Blog Writer One of my favorite things about reading is how I can immerse myself in an entirely different world; however, this just leaves me more disappointed when I close a book and am back in the “real world.”…