Suggested reading: picture books for adults! (I mean, graphic novels) LRR, March 21, 2013February 8, 2025 So, it’s spring break and you’re haunted by the pile of required reading that is waiting for you next week. You spend hours watching bad television just to relax your poor, tired brain. But then you start to feel a little guilty—you love reading, after all. It’s just that reading… Continue Reading
Building (and Cleaning Out) Your Book Collection LRR, March 20, 2013February 8, 2025 The end of the spring semester is fast approaching and for me that means moving home, a place I have not lived consistently for about three years. Because of this, I recently decided to redo my room, putting away the pictures and collection of knick-knacks that remind me of my… Continue Reading
The Devaluation of Creativity LRR, March 17, 2013February 8, 2025 In my long experience on the receiving end of the education system, I have found that there is a significant part of our culture that devalues creativity, especially the fields of Liberal Arts and Fine Arts. In my four years of college as an English and Psychology major, I have… Continue Reading
A Literary Meal LRR, March 13, 2013February 8, 2025 I’ve been noticing a trend in many of the readings for my children’s lit class… there’s A LOT of food. And some of the descriptions are so vivid and detailed that you can almost picture yourself enjoying the cuisine. Ranging from the delightfully decadent (like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s… Continue Reading
Lines From the Works of William Shakespeare, or Jay-Z Lyrics? LRR, March 2, 2013February 8, 2025 Answers at the bottom. Good luck. We swaggering here For now I get around Life is but a dream to me I hit it right She’s too low for a high I flow too many ways These clothes are good enough to drink in I’ll teach you how to flow… Continue Reading
Exploitation of Femininity in “The Hunger Games” LRR, February 24, 2013February 8, 2025 Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games is classified as a young adult book. There are several characteristics that define a book as young adult literature, but the strongest characteristic is the main character’s ascension to adulthood as he or she grapples with issues of power. While Katniss initially appears to be… Continue Reading
Is Poetry Dead? LRR, February 13, 2013February 8, 2025 In 2003, Newsweek released an article titled “Poetry Is Dead. Does Anybody Really Care?” The article, as you might guess, asserts the position of poetry as an irrelevant artform in today’s day and age. The author claims that poetry simply cannot survive in our culture of notoriously short attention spans… Continue Reading
Literature in Unlikely Places. Every Word Matters. LRR, February 13, 2013February 8, 2025 When thinking about the word Literature we often only think of books. What we forget is that Literature is the art of written work. Written work can be anywhere, not just in books and although contradictory to its definition, it does not even have to be written. Written work can… Continue Reading
Literature and…video games!? LRR, February 9, 2013February 8, 2025 Seems like a bizarre sort of juxtaposition, right? Especially with all of the media attention surrounding video games lately. But, as a twenty-one year old English student who has been an avid fan of video games since I could first hold a gameboy, I find this form of entertainment to be just… Continue Reading
The Writer and Rejection LRR, February 8, 2013February 8, 2025 Hey, LRR readers/writers! Those of you that submitted to the Long River Review this year may be wondering what’s going on with submissions. Well, the deadline has come and gone, so the panels are working on making their selections. To those of you that will end up getting… Continue Reading