Digital Publishing for the English Community
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 …
“The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” Richard Powers’ novel, Overstory, does exactly this. He makes it nearly impossible to leave this book feeling the same as you did before. He taps into questions and truths far bigger than I Read More …
To say that the COVID-19 pandemic has turned the University of Michigan’s world upside down would be an understatement. The recent outbreak has shifted all classes to an online format, and sent many students home to finish out the semester there. As an English major currently enrolled in three English classes, seeing how each instructor Read More …
Tuesday, February 18th, Ann Arbor native Adam Falkner appeared at a poetry reading at downtown bookstore Literati. The poems performed came from his first full-length collection The Willies, published just a few weeks ago by independent publisher Button Poetry. Falkner, who now lives in New York City, did a series of readings while visiting his Read More …
Written communication is a skill I’ve been practicing since the third grade. I distinctly remember sitting at my desk eleven years ago, pencil in hand, scribbling down a few paragraphs about why owls were my favorite animal. As the years passed, the conversations I was having in my writing became more sophisticated, but its premise Read More …
The Great Lakes Theme Semester, Michigan Quarterly Review, and the Hopwood Program are hosting an event titled “From the Great Lakes to the Global Water Crisis: Writers on Water”. The event will be held in the Gallery Hatcher Graduate Library on Tuesday, February 25 from 5:30-7:30 pm. It is expected to host many accomplished writers Read More …
In fiction writing, there are many ways to fail. At least that’s what author Catherine Lacey knows to be true. An author of four novels and a short story collection, Lacey will admittedly tell you she’s struggled with her own writing, particularly with finding a space where she can exist outside her own self and Read More …
The Michigan winter, dare I say, is upon us. As we face the reality that the sun may only shine a whopping four days over the next three months, we’re inclined to find new resources to save us from this seemingly bleak state of affairs. This could be cheering amongst the Children of Yost at Read More …
In 1979, the Dawn Treader Bookshop planted its humble roots in a basement down East Liberty Street in Ann Arbor. There, the founder and present-day owner Bill Gilmore sold the books he’d owned. The business expanded from Gilmore selling books to taking in books, and over time Dawn Treader migrated across the street into its Read More …
This week, forty-nine Michigan students will begin reading their own writing at the Undergraduate Library. The event, known as Café Shapiro, gives students a space to experience reading their work to an audience along with the opportunity to have their original work published in an anthology. This year’s readings will occur at seven o’clock on Read More …
