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The culinary world is full of pairing guidelines: food and wine pairing, flavor matching, even complex rules for how to put together an entire dinner menu. For all this abundance of guidelines, though, there’s still one hole left in the food canon, and that’s literature and food pairing. If you’ve ever wondered what snacks to Read More …
Young Adult Fiction. It is arguably one of the most popular categories among readers, piquing interest in young adults and older adults alike. Young adult fiction isn’t technically a “genre” per se, but more of a category, such as adult, or children’s books. In an article titled “Do Teens Get Pushed Out of Books When Read More …
If there’s one thing I believe in, it’s the power of stories. The things we tell each other, sharing both our lived experiences as well as narratives from the depths of our imagination, are what make us human. Our entire society is built on stories in some form. We have myths, fables, religion, even historical documents. Read More …
Unless you have been residing under a rock, you are well aware of the state of the world at this moment. Most of you are probably reading this from your quarantine cell, or home, to put more lightly. I won’t lie; at first, I was excited for my classes to be moved online, and the Read More …
In recent years, poetry has taken on a new shape, one that reaches us where we find ourselves the most: social media. Modern poets coined with the name “Instapoets” have taken their work online, publishing their poems via social media posts and creating experiences that allow visual art to coexist with poetic writing. Taking this Read More …
Last semester, for one of my English courses I read The Vegetarian by Han Kang. The novel was originally published in 2007 in South Korea, Kang’s home country, and later translated into English in 2015, where a year later Vegetarian became the first Korean novel to win the Man Booker International Prize. Deborah Smith, the Read More …
I don’t have a favorite book. Yes, I have a solid group of four or five that read over and over again, but I’ve never been good at picking one solid favorite. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, however, is one that keeps appearing in my life whenever I seem to need it the most. Read More …
If you’ve ever taken a creative writing class in college, you’ve probably heard the same thing I’ve grown to expect on the first day of any given writing class that’s creative in any respect: No Fantasy or Science Fiction Work. The professor might give some long-winded speech about why fantasy and science fiction are too Read More …
Growing up, I remember spending a lot of time at my grandparents’ house; much of that time was spent running in and out of rooms, seeing what kind of trouble I could stir up. But what I’ve always remembered was the number of books lying around about how to connect with your body, how to Read More …
I often feel paralyzed by politics. No matter how many activists I follow on Twitter or how many protests I stop by on my way home from class, it never seems like I’m doing enough. I haven’t figured out how to balance my own mental state with the state of the headlines coming in from Read More …
