Krisela Karaja, the Editor-in-Chief of the 2014 Long River Review, is currently a Fulbright Student Research Fellow in Albania, where she is studying the concepts of memory and nationalism as seen in contemporary poetry during the 25-year post-communist, democratic transition. Though Krisela is focusing on five established Albanian poets for her formal…
Artist Spotlight: Sarah Merkel
Sarah Merkel is a senior art student at Uconn. She is currently working on her senior project before graduation. While the project itself may be finished, or close to finished, Sarah says this is a project she wants to keep up for the rest of her life. Sarah has chosen…
When Movie Adaptations Fail
The announcement of a movie adaptation of a favorite book is always an exciting one. It is the wonderful convergence of my love of reading and my firm standing as a movie geek. However, movie adaptations always come with risk: many times filmmakers get it right, but for every hit…
In Which All is the Star: Mutual Accentuation in Interdisciplinary Art
While the fine arts and the humanities are widely considered closely related, with poetry, painting, and musical performance falling under the same umbrella of creative expression, their interrelatedness less frequently emerges as the product of a creative project beyond filmmaking. However, the reality is changing, and the implications are enormous….
Artist in the Spotlight: Erika Back
This week I’d like to put artist, Erika Back in the Long River Review spotlight. Erika is a senior Design major here at UConn, currently working on her senior project. I had the privilege of seeing her work a few weeks ago when the editors of the Long River Review…
The Romance of Literature
Yes, I know February is past us, but it still isn’t too late for a romance themed post, as it’s an everlasting subject in literature. After all, it’s perfect writing fodder – every experience is unique, yet universal, but largely inconclusive. We will never get to the bottom of this…
On the Reprinting of “This Bridge Called My Back”
A few months ago, I got some incredible news about one of the most critical and curative feminist/womanist of color texts to ever be published: the fourth edition of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color is being printed by SUNY Press! At the National…
The Practice of Reading Aloud
I fed myself with books throughout my childhood. Literally. I couldn’t eat a meal without voraciously turning pages with every other bite. Books went everywhere with me; they were my portal into other universes. I started thinking about this after reading a New York Times article that talked about the importance…
Camille Dungy at UConn
I had the pleasure of attending Camille Dungy’s reading of her three works; What to eat, What to drink, what to leave for poison, Smith Blue, Suck on the Marrow and some of her newer works. The reading took place in the Coop in downtown Storrs on Tuesday March 3,…
Reevaluating the Romance Novel
With Spring Break approaching, many of us are looking for a good novel to read on the beach or at home wishing you were on the beach. Now, Spring Break is a very short week so I wouldn’t recommend tackling anything heavy like War and Peace or The Inferno. I know I’ll…
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