Tired of reading the classics? Ally LeMaster suggests a handful of contemporary plays to change your opinion about drama!
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4 Must Reads in Magical Realism
Poetry panelist and events coordinator Grace Carver recommends the next four books you should be adding to your ‘To Be Read’ list.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Hollywood
Written By: Sophie Archambault I love Hollywood. I love the movies, the fashion, the scandal, the gossip, the award shows. I stalk celebrities’ Instagram accounts like it’s my job and read People magazine in waiting rooms. So naturally, it follows that I also love Taylor Jenkins Reid. Though Reid started…
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The Art Of Literary Translation: A How-To
Have you ever wanted to see what you favorite Japanese poem reads like in English? Emily Graham takes you through a how-to process on translating literary texts so that way you can rewrite that poem yourself…
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Writing With Sound: Making playlists for your stories
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…
Becoming the Writer That I’ve Always Been By: Julia Alexander
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….
What to Read if You Had a Year Left to Live By: Sydney Lauro
Prognosis: you’ve got twelve months left to live. The good news? If you’re literate, you could easily read a book a month. Therefore, it’s time to give up Grey’s Anatomy and escape Meredith’s constant, cliché, and contrived diatribes about life and actually consume a worthwhile use of the English language….
Podcasting and the Resurgence of the Oral Tradition by Diana Koehm
A hush falls over the clearing. The hunter’s voice rings with a metallic clang. The bodies huddled around the fireplace feel the blade pierce the beast’s hide as if it were their own. Before writing, there was word of mouth. Our humble literary blog, and the larger literature scene as…
On writing the teenage character by Asiya Haouchine
People give J.D. Salinger too much flak about his ability to write when it comes to Holden Caulfield of Salinger’s most famous novel, The Catcher in the Rye. When adults (and students) complain about Holden and discuss how annoying he is, I get why they might think that—Holden is whiny…
Revolutionizing Literature: Literary Magazines and the Digital Age by Alexandra Cichon
In the wee hours of the morning, with the DIAGRAM magazine tab open in my browser, I surf the magazine’s current issue, absorbing each pixel of avant-garde poems and clicking rapidly between diagrams. Besides my unequivocal love for the concept DIAGRAM pushes—“odd but good”— oozing from the crisp white and…