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Book covers and expectations

By  Anna Clay
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

This week the Wheeler Centre posted two articles where writers examined different cover versions of books [...]


Teacher vs. student rap battle

By  Francisco Santoni
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

In the middle of a crowd of people wearing hoodies, chains, and baggy shirts stand two [...]


Romney “not concerned about the very poor”

By  Brittany MacLean
Friday, February 17th, 2012

At the end of January Mitt Romney made a comment that startled many Americans. He said, [...]


The Hunger Games

By  Kaitlyn Benesch
Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Ever since the announcement that “The Hunger Games” trilogy is being made into a movie, my [...]


Book giveaways

By  Michael Benesch
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Looking for something to read during the long winter months? Goodreads and Tor/Forge have thirteen giveaways [...]


Incorrect Sylvia Plath Quotes

By  Anna Clay
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

In the film Annie Hall, Woody Allen’s character states that Sylvia Plath was an “interesting poetess [...]


Books of our youth

By  Michael Leone
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

What are those books that you cherished when you were younger and return to in later [...]


Pinterested in books

By  Scott Stein
Monday, February 13th, 2012

I recently discovered Pinterest, a site that lets users share images in a bulletin-board style. People [...]


The Printed Book

By  Lindsey Fratz
Monday, February 13th, 2012

In the past year, the popularity of e-books has grown exponentially. I-Pad, Nooks, and Kindles were [...]


Sh*t book reviewers say

By  Kathleen Volk Miller
Saturday, February 11th, 2012

It is reviews like this that give verbs that end in -ly a bad rep.  Everything [...]