Increased “Smut” in YA literature
Guest Writer // Tessa Donohue In the rise of popularity in reading, specifically within the YA genre, it has become evident that romance sells. Or, more specifically: smut sells. In…
Opinion
On the Value of Fantasy Novels
Elliot Berkley // Guest Writer You’re introducing yourself in a new lit class, and the professor asks what everyone’s favorite genre is. As the domino chain of answers makes its…
The Case for Screenplays: What Modern Writers can Gain From Reading Scripts
Above is an excerpt from Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney’s breathtaking 2016 screenplay Moonlight. In this scene, the main character, Little, is asking Juan, the man who has become a father figure to him, about his involvement with drugs.
ARC Review: A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Grace Mattsen // Staff Writer A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda When Priya and Ashok Shah move their family to the affluent Pacific Hills, California, neighborhood, they feel like…
The Switch: Goodreads to The StoryGraph
By Elisabeth Grass Every avid reader, and most not-so-avid readers, know about the wildly popular book-logging site Goodreads. It has been the frontrunning social cataloging website for years, and currently…
Do Bookstores Deserve Your Money? : Deciding When and When Not to Purchase New Books
By Paige Bayliss I love owning physical books. I love being able to say I have a collection. I love seeing them lined up on my shelves, spines aligning in…