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.”…
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 images of her white skirt flying up on a subway…
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 livestreams dedicated to playing, then you’re likely aware of the…
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 life of me I couldn’t comprehend why. At the time,…
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 are beyond this age range; not only are my friends…
Amazon’s Top 10 Bestsellers of 2017 and the Status of the Publishing Industry
Jonathan Smith//Blog Writer Some say that a year is only as good as the literature read within its 365 days. In that sense, 2017 was actually phenomenal. For the purposes of this article, we can look back on the…