“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 was still below zero this morning, little February is coming to an end and taking winter with it. Spring is just 20 days away. After spending months burying… More Feed Your Inner Wanderer
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. 1)Gabriel GarcíaMárquez / Colombia “Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but … life obliges them over and over again… More Top 10 International Author Quotes
Each verse gets worse– a last-ditch effort to disseminate some quality teen angst before Valentine’s Month is over: I want you to draw me like one of your French girls But I am nobody’s little weasel. They say bread is life. And I bake bread, bread, bread. And I sweat and shovel… More *—Top 10 Romantic Movie Lines for an Awful Poem—*
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 that starts at your gut and gradually makes its way to that corner of the mind where imagination lingers. I’ve been thinking an awful lot about what makes a… More I Don’t Want To Do Anything But Read
In my experience as a student of the public school system, English literature departments seldom offer texts in the curriculum that deviate from a white, middle-to-upper class, Eurocentric (and very often male) voice. Students like me are taught authors like Shakespeare and Dickens, Steinbeck and Fitzgerald and Faulkner. The poets we learn about are poets… More Ten Fantastic Examples of Queer Person-of-Color Literature
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 floors me. On another level, I expect it. Visual Novels have never been particularly main stream, not even in their country of origin: Japan. I suppose… More Top Ten Free Visual Novels, Huh What?
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 counter-culture classic and magnum opus In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is a giant love letter to Anne Frank. In an interview with Pitchfork, frontman Jeff Mangum explained the… More Top 10 Most Literary Indie Bands
The recent opening of the 2014 Sochi Olympics has been a controversial one to say the least. Already the most expensive Olympics in history, with an estimated cost of 51 billion dollars, there have been no shortage of infrastructural problems that the Western media has been too eager to pounce on. Articles and Twitter… More Olympic Sized Complaints…
It’s a list for everyone. 1. The Shawshank Redemption Adapted from a Stephen King novella titled Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the movie was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won none of them. But still, what a film. 2. Girl, Interrupted Based off Susanna Keysen’s memoir about her stay in a mental… More Top 10 Books to Film