This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously Dude, Don’t Touch It! Review by Rebecca Nelson LRR, February 13, 2016February 8, 2025 **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… Continue Reading
Some thoughts on responding to literature in a creative way by Shannon Hearn LRR, February 11, 2016February 8, 2025 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… Continue Reading
Remembering Sidney Sheldon by Laura Ruttan LRR, February 11, 2016February 8, 2025 “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… Continue Reading
The Cult of Objectivity by Sten Spinella LRR, February 8, 2016February 8, 2025 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… Continue Reading
“The Blood Shed” translation by Ana Arriaga (2015) LRR, February 7, 2016March 16, 2016 Spanish LA SANGRE DERRAMADA ¡Que no quiero verla! Dile a la luna que venga, que no quiero ver la sangre de Ignacio sobre la arena. ¡Que no quiero verla! La luna de par en par. Caballo de nubes quietas, y la plaza gris del sueño con sauces en las barreras…. Continue Reading
“Turner’s Comedy” by Martin Bremer (2015) LRR, February 7, 2016March 16, 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… Continue Reading
“Morning on Cathedral Parkway” by Lillie Gardner (2015) LRR, February 7, 2016March 16, 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… Continue Reading
“Glorious” by Amy Martin (2015) LRR, February 7, 2016March 16, 2016 Glimpses of his dreams pass by his eyes in the calm solitude of the waiting window. It’s one thing in Sean’s life that he wants slow and still and calm. One of few. He always seems in a rush. In a way, he is; in a way no one but… Continue Reading