The Fall… and Rise of Books
Sarah Vincent//Blog Writer In 2015, almost every journalistic piece written about books and their competitors, the e-books, warned of the decline of the book. E-books were a huge hit, and…
Review: Junot Díaz Explores Contemporary Love in This Is How You Lose Her
Jonathan Smith//Blog Writer Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Díaz published This Is How You Lose Her, his second short story collection, in August of 2012. The compendium consists of nine…
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…
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…