Blog Grid Blog Looking Into the Mystique of Betty Friedan by Allison McLellan February 4, 2016 “I never set out to write a book to change women’s lives, to change history. It’s like, ‘Who, me?’ Yes, me. I did it. And I’m not that different from... Remembering James Joyce by Carleton Whaley February 2, 2016 “Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.” — James Joyce, “James... The Best American Sci-Fi/Fantasy: Wonderbomb or Bust? Review by Caitlyn Durfee January 30, 2016 “Wonder is a blasting cap. It is an emotion that goes off with a bang, shattering settled beliefs, rattling the architecture of the mind, and clearing... Remembering Virginia Woolf by Asiya Haouchine January 25, 2016 “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” — Virginia Woolf, A Room of... My Feminist Handbook May 5, 2015 I was introduced to Bell Hooks’ Feminism Is For Everybody as a required reading for an introductory Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies... Artist Spotlight: Ana Cracion May 5, 2015 Ana Cracion isn’t the typical artist covered by our Artist Spotlight series this semester. She’s a second year MFA student with the... A Review of the Gerson Irish Reading with Claire Kilroy April 29, 2015 On Tuesday, March 31, acclaimed author, Gerson Irish Reader Claire Kilroy, gave a reading to a full house at the UConn Alumni Center. Dubliner Claire... A Dinner with Rigoberto Gonzalez April 27, 2015 I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Rigoberto Gonzalez April 16th, 2015. Prior to this dinner, I sat, front row, at his reading at... Artist Spotlight: Olivia Taylor April 20, 2015 Olivia Taylor, senior at UConn’s School of Fine Arts, is a few weeks from graduating – but senioritis clearly hasn’t hit her too hard, because she’s... «‹585960616263646566›»