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Long River Review
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UConn's Literary & Arts Magazine

Tag: Reading

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Why Don’t Boys Read?

LRR, June 2, 2022February 8, 2025

To read or not to read? That’s the question. Catherine Casey explores the gendered divide that seems to define those who gravitate one way or another…

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Four Pieces Of Writing Advice I Wish I’d Gotten Sooner

LRR, April 5, 2022February 8, 2025

Cameron Deslaurier offers you the best writing advice he’s ever received. Take what works for you and apply it to your own creative process…

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Flowers in the Attic: Incest, Rape and Murder-by-Doughnut: Some Context to V.C. Andrews’ Global Hit

LRR, March 22, 2022February 8, 2025

Ever heard of “Flowers in the Attic”? Samatha Bertolino read one of the most controversial books of all time so you don’t have to…

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Reading as a Young Writer

LRR, March 19, 2021February 8, 2025

Mia Yanosy on considering the joy of reading as an English major.

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POV: You’re the Last Person in the World to Read Harry Potter

LRR, April 23, 2020February 8, 2025

By Jennie Fetzer Picture this, it’s the early 2000s, and if you’re a millennial or *cusp* Gen-Zer, you’re probably about to get off the bus from school, drink a Capri-Sun juice pouch, and read the Harry Potter series for the third (no, fourth) time through.  A strange reality hit me…

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Cracking a Cold One with the Books

By: Parker Gregory Shpak

LRR, May 26, 2017February 8, 2025

Two of my most frequented hobbies are reading books and drinking beer. My favorite hobby, however, is reading books while drinking beer. Herein lies a primer for those of you who have perhaps dabbled in these pastimes, but have not yet mastered them in combination. Beer has as rich a…

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Where I Am Going And Where I Have Been

By: Maggie Parker

LRR, May 19, 2017February 8, 2025

I live in extremes. People laugh when I say that, they smile at me as if they know what I mean. “You go from zero to 60. But you got that from me.” My mother has said to me. But she’s wrong, I’m not like her. My intensity is drug…

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Punctuation Party Stereotypes

By: Mairead Loschi

LRR, April 8, 2017February 8, 2025

If you’re living the life of a typical college student, you’ve probably made it to a party or two (no word back on if you remember them…). And, if you’re at all like me (a writer and a deeply introverted person), you’ve probably also cringed at the memory of going…

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Books and Videogames: A Marriage of Two Mediums

By: Autumn Magro

LRR, April 7, 2017February 8, 2025

I love videogames more than books – sometimes. It’s not easy to admit that books are not my one bountiful passion in life (because how romantic is that?), and it’s taken me even longer to rationalize the two together. Unlike books, there is a negative connotation with video games. There…

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Ten Books I was Assigned to Read as an Undergrad that Actually Didn’t Suck

By: Amanda McCarthy

LRR, March 31, 2017February 8, 2025

It happens every semester. You arrive on the first day of class, sit down, and pour over the list of assigned texts that you will need to trudge through over the coming months. You remember something your tenth grade English teacher said about the classics being important and every time…

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