Blog 3 Ways I Got Involved with Creative Writing as a Non-English Major LRR, April 30, 2025May 5, 2025 Written by: Emily Sharkis When coming to college, I was super unsure of what to major in. As a writer and a former huge bookworm, you’d think I would gravitate toward English. However, once I got to high school, my attention span dwindled and my attitude toward long-form literature became… Continue Reading
Blog Breaking Down The English Major Stigma LRR, February 28, 2022February 8, 2025 Do any of you English majors out there feel like your career options are limited? Well, worry no more. Soon-to-be graduate Sam Bastille has ideas for you (and yes, more than just teaching)… Continue Reading
UConn CLAS Article on the 20th Anniversary Edition of LRR LRR, June 24, 2017 Check out a new article on the making of Long River Review‘s 20th Anniversary Issue, written by our own Sydney Lauro. It gives wonderful insight on what goes on during the process of making our magazine, and why LRR is such a unique experience for UConn students. http://clas.uconn.edu/2017/06/21/leaving-a-legacy-long-river-review-publishes-20th-edition/ The process… Continue Reading
English Major and Pre-Med: Reconciling Medicine and Literature through Stories By: Stephanie Koo LRR, March 7, 2017February 8, 2025 It’s a normal day at the hospital. I, a valued member of the Emergency Department translational research team, approach a patient to enroll them in one of our studies (read: extremely socially awkward girl, wearing scrubs too big for her, bothers sick and crying kids and their sleep-deprived parents, to… Continue Reading
Reflections on Writing, Medicine, and More with Nikki Rubin, former LRR Poetry Editor by Stephanie Koo (2016) LRR, May 19, 2016March 5, 2024 Interview by Steph Koo I had the opportunity to speak with Nikki Rubin, LRR alum, survivor of UCONN medical school, newly-minted doctor extraordinaire, over video chat this past weekend. Our talk ranged from writing experiences, to her decision to choose OB/GYN as her specialty, to my own anxieties over choosing… Continue Reading
Graduating as an English Major: An Open Letter to Myself Right Now By Therese Masotta LRR, May 5, 2016February 8, 2025 To The Current Me, This morning I woke up with you, like I always do, and it was early and you were just as confused as you were the night before you went to sleep, and everything seemed surreal as it always does. It’s the last week of classes and… Continue Reading
MFA—Recipe For Success or Disaster? By Kate Monica LRR, March 31, 2016February 8, 2025 “Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?” —Chang-rae Lee, On Such A Full Sea Getting an MFA seems like the natural progression for any English major looking to take a swing at making a career of writing…. 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
“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
“Soooo….Do You Want to be a Teacher?”: Lessons Learned from Being an English Major LRR, March 3, 2014February 8, 2025 I never liked kids. My mom loves to tell the story of how, when I was five, I asked where babies come from. After she detailed the process in five-year-old speak, I wrinkled my nose. “Am I going to have to do that?” Don’t get me wrong, I like my… Continue Reading