Month: February 2016

This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously Dude, Don’t Touch It!

Review by Rebecca Nelson

February 13, 2016

**Editor’s Note: This is a special review serving as a throwback to our high school selves and their favorite books. Have you ever had an intensely realistic dream that you forget the moment you wake up, only to forever feel as though you’d had an epiphany about the meaning of life, never able to remember… More This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously Dude, Don’t Touch It! Review by Rebecca Nelson

Some thoughts on responding to literature in a creative way

by Shannon Hearn

February 11, 2016

English majors become good at writing to survive. There always have been and always will be those W courses where fifteen pages of revised writing means writing way more than the diminutive requirement so many of us are afraid of at the beginning of a semester. So, on top of pages upon pages of reading,… More Some thoughts on responding to literature in a creative way by Shannon Hearn

Remembering Sidney Sheldon by

Laura Ruttan

February 11, 2016

“Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.” — Sidney Sheldon Sidney Sheldon was a famous successful American playwright, screenwriter, and best selling novelist. Sheldon was born ninety-nine… More Remembering Sidney Sheldon by Laura Ruttan

The Cult of Objectivity

by Sten Spinella

February 8, 2016

Objectivity is overrated. Well, it’s misunderstood. Journalists commonly call it “covering both sides.” The traditional and (self-proclaimed) unassailable reporter will say that there’s never an angle to a story. Maybe there’s a story begging to be told, but never an angle—never to be covered from one viewpoint, and never, under any circumstances, to pick and… More The Cult of Objectivity by Sten Spinella

“Turner’s Comedy”

by Martin Bremer (2015)

February 7, 2016

The pistol lies across the desk from me—out of reach, but pointing straight at my chest. Halogen lamps flood the interrogation room—I can almost feel my innards incinerate as the brightness forces its way through my retina—every crevice, every wrinkle of me, laid bare, out in the open—illuminated. I’m trying to sit straight and still,… More “Turner’s Comedy” by Martin Bremer (2015)

“Morning on Cathedral Parkway”

by Lillie Gardner (2015)

February 7, 2016

Waking up after being awake all night from sweating under your blankets and out of your blankets and leaning against the wall to cry and cough, with your loose shirt slipping off my shoulders, with too much of the moonlight bouncing off the cold cars in the parking lot below and shining through the cloth… More “Morning on Cathedral Parkway” by Lillie Gardner (2015)