Category: Online Work

I had the pleasure of attending Camille Dungy’s reading of her three works; What to eat, What to drink, what to leave for poison, Smith Blue, Suck on the Marrow and some of her newer works. The reading took place in the Coop in downtown Storrs on Tuesday March 3,…

With Spring Break approaching, many of us are looking for a good novel to read on the beach or at home wishing you were on the beach. Now, Spring Break is a very short week so I wouldn’t recommend tackling anything heavy like War and Peace or The Inferno. I know I’ll…

And so the formerly greedy businessman bids “good riddance!” to Wall Street and takes up trying to illustrate the lives of the less fortunate though photography. Or perhaps the starving artist, grappling with existential crises and profound writer’s block, takes a magic pill and realizes that books aren’t good enough…

There are a lot of ways to do this. Recommendations from friends and professors, book lists from magazines, book reviews in a newspaper—maybe you just choose a book at random at your local bookstore. The internet has created even more ways to choose your next book. Let me introduce you…

As an English major, obviously most of my assignments involve reading or writing. For my advanced study in Digital Rhetoric class, we are currently reading a novel called The Circle written by Dave Eggers. This novel is essential for everyone in our generation to read, as it details the truly…

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”—Stephen King The library has always been my own sort of haven: a cool, air-conditioned resort, an oasis, the best way to escape the stifling summertime heat. Shelves and shelves and…

Often when we settle down to read for pleasure, we instinctively reach for an easy read, a book we can flip through and digest in a single sitting without coming up for air. These are books to be briefly enjoyed, then dismissed from our minds. We should keep reading them….