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Submit to Painted Bride Quarterly

By Emily Homrok
Thursday, August 13th, 2009

What is Painted Bride Quarterly?
Our statement can put it to you in formal terms:
Painted Bride Quarterly was established in Philadelphia in 1973.  As a community-based, independent, non-profit literary magazine published quarterly online and annually in print, PBQ’s main agenda is to maintain and grow a venue for the highest quality literature that best represents the individual voice.  [...]


The Examiner

By Emily Homrok
Thursday, August 6th, 2009

The Examiner is a great resource for fun, informative columns on local news, music, film, fashion, food, events, science, business, fitness, and more — you name it, they’ve got it — based in cities around the country.
Of course, the Philadelphia Examiner is likely to be of particular interest to anyone reading this post.
If you’re looking [...]


Tools for sulking

By Emily Homrok
Thursday, July 30th, 2009

If you, ever the clever sleuth that you are, do a bit of delving back into the old Drexel Publishing Group archives, you will see that I’ve already equipped you with a small sampling of Philly coffeeshops to go practice skills including but not limited to: writing, moping, and voyeurism.
Now, in case you want to [...]


Banned Books: The Literary Gems We Almost Missed Out On

By Julia Perch
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

It’s hard to believe there was a time when incredible books like Frankenstein, Ulysses, Candide, The Canterbury Tales, and Catcher in the Rye were censored, removed, and banned from libraries, schools, and bookstores across the country.
My pre-teenage years were shaped by Judy Blume; I can vividly remember reading Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret [...]


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, by Caitlin Horrocks. At the Zoo is centered around a young mother who takes a day off of work to supervise her father’s interaction with her son during a visit through the zoo. The mother doesn’t trust her [...]


“I can make it hot!!!” says Craigslist

By Emily Homrok
Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Being a college student — that is to say, being utterly broke to the point of considering things like prostitution and black market organ trafficking to raise a little textbook ching — I’ve fallen prey to the lure that is Craigslist.
I’ve browsed the gamut, fooling myself. Receptionist? Baby-sitter? Sure, I’ve got tons of HTML experience [...]