The Origins of Publishing, Part 1
Victor Morrison // Blog Writer The history of publishing stretches much further back than the invention of the printing press or the creation of the book. The idea of leaving…
When Fiction Gets Real: Dealing with the Death of Your Favorite Fictional Character
Camila Fagen Guitron // Blog Writer Anthony Rodriguez, Emerson College student and avid reader, recalls sitting down with the last book in the Divergent trilogy when his favorite character—who will…
Stricken Ill with Ferrante Fever
Kyle Labe//Blog Writer In Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, the third installment in Elena Ferrante’s triumphant Neapolitan Novels, the narrator lists for a page everything she wants to…
The Hero’s Journey and Modern Story Structure
Jonathan Smith // Blog Writer Humans have always had an insatiable appetite for compelling and relatable stories. Philosophers and writers alike have often tried to categorize the essence of an…
Challenging Gender Stereotypes One Children’s Book at a Time
Angie Haas//Blog Writer Children’s books are perhaps the least diverse genre. Looking back on the books I read as a child — from Curious George to Where the Wild Things…
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,…