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…
Opinion
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and so Does Oates
Kyle Labe//Blog Writer Decades after her untimely death, Marilyn Monroe remains an archetype in America’s collective unconscious. Like Hollywood’s version of Helen of Troy, Monroe’s beauty has transcended time, and…
Roll With It: How Playing Dungeons & Dragons Can Improve Your Writing
Micaela Pryor//Blog Writer Dungeons & Dragons has exploded into popular culture in the past few years. If you’ve seen Stranger Things, or any of the dozens of podcasts and…
Revisiting The Scarlet Letter as a Queer Man
Kyle Labe//Blog Writer When I first read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, I was sixteen and in the tenth grade. No one enjoyed the novel but me, and for the…
Young Adult to New Adult
Angie Haas//Blog Writer Young adult novels are typically of the fiction genre and are aimed at people from fourteen to twenty-one years of age. Yet, many young adult consumers…
#myfavoritebook: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Micaela Pryor//Blog Writer Shirley Jackson’s final novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle is an underrated classic, a gothic tale of murder, money, and persecution. Her clear, biting…