Blog James Baldwin on Love and Living with Light LRR, February 14, 2025May 5, 2025 Written by: Charlotte Ungar So often when considering the penetrating prose of James Baldwin do we forget his legacy of love. In part, this omission is because love has never been convenient for anyone. It is also common, as readers, for many of us to dismiss the selectivity of our… Continue Reading
Blog Writing With Sound: Making playlists for your stories LRR, February 18, 2020February 8, 2025 Sometimes to see, you need to listen first. For almost all of the projects I would create before 2016, I ran into a wall over and over again: For some reason, I couldn’t visualize anything about my stories the way I needed to. It wasn’t because I didn’t have a… Continue Reading
Potato-Ball Days: Spring Cleaning and Rediscovering the Thrill of Pleasure By: Nicholas DiBenedetto LRR, March 19, 2017February 8, 2025 “Put all your books on the floor.” Marie Kondo The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing Spring has finally woken up here in New England! Okay, maybe not quite yet, but I’m sure I heard him rustling around in his room. Honestly, I don’t… Continue Reading
10 Books to Get You through Midterm Season By: Autumn Magro LRR, March 6, 2017February 8, 2025 Let’s face it: midterms are pretty horrible and come out of nowhere like a badly written side-character. I am what many Internet bibliophiles refer to as a mood reader, so when I have three exams on a Thursday and my car won’t start, I’ll find it difficult to enjoy Raskolnikov’s… Continue Reading
Becoming the Writer That I’ve Always Been By: Julia Alexander LRR, March 1, 2017February 8, 2025 Ever since I could read and write, I have been infatuated with storytelling. I remember the desk in my childhood bedroom overflowing with half-filled notebooks and the scraps of torn out pages. My handwriting, barely legible to anyone but myself, was scrawled across papers that were stalked high like mountains…. Continue Reading
It’s Time to Talk to People About Books By: Autumn Magro LRR, February 16, 2017February 8, 2025 I started a YouTube channel because I had failed. A Harper Perennial Classic edition of The Bell Jar sat half-read on my desk as the recruiter told me over the phone that the aforementioned publisher had gone with someone else. I put the copy underneath a stack of my resumes…. Continue Reading
Soundtracks to Literature LRR, March 30, 2013February 8, 2025 Movies and books have a lot in common: they bring stories to large audiences, they are meant to transport us somewhere new or highlight something old, they entertain us, and they can have profound effects on all manner of people. What’s one thing that movies always have that we almost… Continue Reading