Haunted: The Perfect Halloween Read or an Abuse of the Alphabet?
Blog Writer // Allegra Gonzalez When I think of fall, two types of people come to mind. There are pumpkin spice latte people— think pumpkin patches, autumn candles, and Uggs…
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I Just Want to Watch my People Smile and Laugh
Blog Writer // Pilialoha Gaudiello Popularized media of Indigenous people often includes aspects of an overwhelmingly colonial narrative. Although these are representations founded in the reality and history of various…
How to Make the Proper Book to Screen Adaptation: A Lesson by Mike Flanagan
Blog Writer // Paige Bayliss As a long time reader and book-lover, I think there is nothing more exciting than finding out that your favorite novel or series is going…
ARC Review: In Tongues by Thomas Grattan
Guest Writer // Grace Mattsen This book is exciting, funny, and raw. Gordon is lost. He is twenty-four and floundering around New York City in the early 2000s. Estranged from…
The Chalice of the Gods or The Chalice of Qualms: Is the Percy Jackson Franchise Continuing Strong or Is it Going Downhill?
Guest Writer // Camryn Lehr I first picked up a Percy Jackson book, The Lightning Thief, when I was in third grade. I was instantly hooked from the first sentence: “Look,…
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.