Blog Grid Blog “Soooo….Do You Want to be a Teacher?”: Lessons Learned from Being an English Major March 3, 2014 I never liked kids. My mom loves to tell the story of how, when I was five, I asked where babies come from. After she detailed the process in... Feed Your Inner Wanderer February 28, 2014 “A man cannot become wise until he has weathered/ his share of winters in this world” – from The Wanderer, trans. RM Liuzza *** Though the wind-chill... Top 10 International Author Quotes February 28, 2014 Amazing writers from around the globe, instead of trying to convince you why they’re worth a read, I’ll let them speak for themselves... *—Top 10 Romantic Movie Lines for an Awful Poem—* February 26, 2014 Each verse gets worse– a last-ditch effort to disseminate some quality teen angst before Valentine’s Month is over: I want you to... I Don’t Want To Do Anything But Read February 25, 2014 Those of you that make a habit out of turning the pages of a new novel until completion, will get me. You’ll understand the fleeting emotion... Ten Fantastic Examples of Queer Person-of-Color Literature February 12, 2014 In my experience as a student of the public school system, English literature departments seldom offer texts in the curriculum that deviate from a... Top Ten Free Visual Novels, Huh What? February 12, 2014 The vast majority of the time when I bring up visual novels to someone in conversation, they have no idea what I am talking about. On one level, this... Top 10 Most Literary Indie Bands February 11, 2014 My favorite things in life are music and books. The only thing I love more is when they cross over. 1) First prize goes to Neutral Milk Hotel. Their... Olympic Sized Complaints… February 10, 2014 The recent opening of the 2014 Sochi Olympics has been a controversial one to say the least. Already the most expensive Olympics in history... «‹686970717273747576›»