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…
10 Examples of Why Rappers are among the Best Writers of the 21st Century By: Sten Spinella
Last year, one of my blog posts for the Long River Review claimed that hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar is America’s leading public intellectual. In sports journalism terms, that would be called an “electric” or “hot” take. Continuing in that direction this year, I’d like to posit a deeply held conviction…
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The Sputter: The Monster Under Every Writer’s Bed (and how you can fight it) By: Amanda McCarthy
It is nine-thirty on a Monday night. Usually, you’re not a last-minute-poet. But tonight, your midnight deadline is drowning under pages and pages of beginning lines that, at this point, sound more like the humming of a garbage disposal than poetry. You do really well under pressure, so generally this…
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….
This, too, Will Snatch Your Edges By: Traci Parker
Ebonics is ‘trendy’ when the right mouth is speaking it. Many Americans forget about or, rather, neglect Ebonics. It’s real. And it’s lit. In case you don’t know what Ebonics is, the word refers to an African American vernacular that was a product of American slavery. Linguistically, Ebonics is not…
How to Surive an Attack from an Ex-M15 Agent: Eleven Steps to Getting the Most out of Your Writing Workshop By: Jameson Croteau
Someone told me— right before my transatlantic flight—that Englishmen hate confrontation. Flash forward to my writing internship in London and I have an ex-MI5 agent, veins popping purple through the Skype window on my 16-inch laptop screen, about to burst from my criticism of his second to-be-published novel. His vitriol,…
How to Read a Book When You Can’t Breathe Through Your Nose By: Betty Noe
Falling into bed with a good book always sounds like the perfect solution whenever I’ve acquired the latest illness that is in vogue among my friends. Often, this form of self-care is better than the reality for me. When I have a sinus headache and I’m coughing up a lung,…
Korean Jesus By: Taylor Caron
I would often relay my father’s life story to the first graders that would congregate around my desk at school. Even as a child, I understood that the truth of a tale should never interfere with the drama of storytelling. I remember seeing my teacher coming over to chastise me…
Send Nudes: Contemporary Language, Literature, and the Female Form By: Rebecca Hill
The instructions specified that I got undressed. A notepad in hand, I stood in front of the bedroom mirror in my apartment and looked for the things that I loved about my body. This exercise was something that I would never have tried on my own, something that I had…
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