By Jose Paz Soldan For the past few weeks, I’ve found myself unable to properly write creative fiction like I’ve used to. The drive that pushed me forward seemed to have fizzled out, and I found myself staring at a blank sheet of paper or an empty word document, fingers…
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Books: The 19th Century Vibrator
By Anna Zarra Aldrich The male ego has been a fragile thing for centuries; and in the 19th century, this ego was especially threatened by a particularly heinous device that could eliminate a woman’s need for a man entirely: Books. Sinister, seditious, patriarchy-disestablishing books. When women became more active members…
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Why Genre Literature Should Be Welcome in the Classroom
By Jonathan Trinque Throughout my academic career, I have had a fair amount of exposure to the literary canon. But in all that time the only overt genre novel I think I’ve ever read in a classroom was Lois Lowry’s The Giver in eighth grade. That is before last semester,…
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The Best Places to Acquire Books
By Natalie Baliker Shopping for books is an experience almost as satisfying as sitting down to read them. I tend to visit at least one bookstore every place I visit, but I’ve come to notice that no two are alike. No, we’re not discussing Barnes & Noble, where every store…
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Three Young Adult Books That Everyone Should Read, and Why You Should Read Them
By Jordan Shaw For the past 10 years of my life, my go-to sections in bookstores and libraries have been the Young Adult shelves. I liked that it was a place where many of the books I picked up featured magical creatures or people with miraculous powers, and I found…
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Shakespearean Sonnet Shenanigans
By Alex Mika It’s been two weeks since Valentine’s Day appeared on our tear-away calendars, and as the pink dust settles and the flowers start to wilt, you may be wondering, “What did I get myself into?” You may even begin to think that the comedy of errors that is…
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Four Purchases I’ve Made at Used Bookstores
By Alyssa Grimaldi As both a used bookstore-enthusiast and a Libra, I have often found myself frantically perusing the shelves in charming small businesses, absolutely panicking because my friends want to depart but I still haven’t found that life-changing novel. This list is for fellow hopelessly hesitant Libras in danger…
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What’s a Literary Instagram Anyways?
And the 10 That You Should be Following Based on Your Aesthetic! By Jennie Fetzer In an internet-obsessed world of Kardashians and #Sponsored content, it might seem hard to imagine another kind of social media influencer- one who inspires you to do the exact opposite of scrolling through your feed…
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What makes a story “next”?
By Kathryn O’Donnell Our mission at Long River this issue was to find and publish pieces that are next, not now. “Next” shouldn’t be reserved solely for ideas that have never been discussed before. “Next” could be looking at a story that’s already been told from a new perspective. The…
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Romance on the Upswing: Chick-lit is making a comeback
If you keep up with the world of commercial fiction, you may have noticed that the genre of the rom-com is making a bit of a comeback, in more ways than one. Romance was one of the most popular genres in literature in the 2000s, with big names such as…
