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Literature Archive

The Paris Review spring 2009

By  Jordan Schilling
Monday, July 13th, 2009

The Paris Review‘s recent spring 2009 issue features an amazing fiction peice entitiled At the Zoo, [...]


Existentialist Writings

By  Amber Turner
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

I’d like to be able to say that I’m reading Jean-Paul Sartre’s Basic Writings for my [...]


The Plight of an English Major

By  Julia Perch
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

A typical conversation I’ve had with relatives, friends, acquaintances, strangers, and pretty much anyone I’ve encountered [...]


Dig A Bit Deeper?

By  Samantha Slusarczyk
Monday, July 6th, 2009

We have all heard those words from our professors, “dig deeper;” but why? As I was [...]


She’s my favorite Canadian recluse

By  Emily Homrok
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Emily Dickinson. Robert Frost. Allen Ginsberg. These are famous poets (not an oxymoron, for better or [...]


Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse Novels Lack Bite

By  Amber Turner
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

I decided a few weeks ago to read the first two Sookie Stackhouse novels, Dead Until [...]


Less Than Psycho Attraction

By  Emily Homrok
Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Everyone has heard of — and most of us have seen — American Psycho. Less idolized [...]


Yeah dude, Gatsby 2: Gatsby In Jail

By  Emily Homrok
Thursday, June 4th, 2009

So the other night– (I swear, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke. Bear with.) [...]


Disconnect

By  Lydia Smith
Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Usually when reading I tend to like a supporting character. They aren’t usually admirable characters- like [...]


Heavenly Library

By  Lydia Smith
Thursday, May 28th, 2009

The small, private Catholic institution I attended for high school is set back in the countryside [...]