Three Things You Can Do to Prepare for NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo, also known as National Novel Writing Month, is less than two weeks away. It’s, yet again, time for endless cups of coffee,...
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Nathaniel Buckingham
- Jun 28, 2022
- 5 min
Review of Petite Maman, Directed by Céline Sciamma.
Céline Sciamma’s new film returns us to the magic and grief of childhood. Ever since seeing Portrait of a Lady On Fire back in 2019 and...
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Miranda Williams
- Jun 20, 2022
- 3 min
Three Reasons "Everything Everywhere All At Once" Will Make You A Better Writer
Breaking the record for studio A24’s highest grossing film of all time, Everything Everywhere All at Once is an optimistically nihilistic...
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Nathaniel Buckingham
- Jun 20, 2022
- 2 min
Review of "Lapvona" by Ottessa Moshfegh
Lapvona is the fifth book release by the disturbingly talented American author Ottessa Moshfegh, and boy is this installment fucked up in...
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Kylee Webb
- Feb 15, 2021
- 3 min
Saint Maud: A Cinematic Marriage of Heaven and Hell
by Kylee Webb With a blend of eroticism and repulsion, possession and madness, Rose Glass sires one of the richest films in recent horror...
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Kylee Webb
- Jan 15, 2021
- 4 min
Promising Young Woman: The Most Holistic Film of the #MeToo Era
by Kylee Webb With the genius portrayal of Cassie Thomas by Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman readily proves itself as the sharpest...
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Nathaniel Buckingham
- Jul 1, 2020
- 2 min
Review of Past Lives, Future Bodies by Kristin Chang
Past Lives, Future Bodies by Kristin Chang is a sharp and vivid poetry collection. Each poem feels like a fish flowing through brightly...
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Miranda Williams
- Jun 28, 2020
- 2 min
Review of Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
Like its title implies, Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney encourages us all to speak, share our feelings, and delve into our...
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Nathaniel Buckingham
- Jun 25, 2020
- 6 min
3 Ways The Last of Us Can Improve Your Writing
Videogames tell stories—unique stories, ones that are far more interactive than films or books, and that have the potential to take you...
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Nathaniel Buckingham
- Jun 19, 2020
- 2 min
Review of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
In The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake a young girl named Rose is suddenly able to taste her mother’s feelings in the lemon cake she...
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Miranda Williams
- Jun 15, 2020
- 3 min
7 Books To Read to Support Black Lives Matter
With the murder of George Floyd by police, protests have sparked all over the world. All fifty states, more than seven hundred U.S...
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Nathaniel Buckingham
- Jun 2, 2020
- 1 min
Citizen by Claudia Rankine – A Must Read
“I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.” It's one of many powerful quotes in Citizen, Claudia Rankine’s...
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Miranda Williams
- May 1, 2020
- 2 min
Review of Knots by Gunnhild Øyehaug
Øyehaug’s collection of short stories—the shortest being one page and the longest twenty two—is an odd and anxious experience. Everything...
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Nathaniel Buckingham
- Mar 4, 2020
- 4 min
Review of The World Isn’t the Size of Our Neighborhood Anymore by Austin Davis
Austin Davis’s poetry collection, The World Isn’t the Size of Our Neighborhood Anymore, is an intricate and honest love letter to growing...
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Nathaniel Buckingham
- Feb 7, 2020
- 3 min
Marlon James: “Reclaiming the Fantasy Novel”
Image credit to Megan Potter, ASU Now Marlon James has made waves in the Fantasy world for a while now. He won the Man Booker Prize for A...
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Miranda Williams
- Jan 23, 2020
- 6 min
Five Ways to Create a Complex Character
Being alive is weird. It comes with emotions, experiences, societal placements, and upbringings. We each have different cultures,...
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Miranda Williams
- Jan 7, 2020
- 10 min
The Correspondence of Existentialism and Feminism in Virginia Woolf’s To the Light House
In her book The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir describes a woman’s relationship to creativity: “when she does not find love, she may find...
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Miranda Williams
- Jan 1, 2020
- 2 min
Review of No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
This book was a mix that felt both familiar and absolutely incredibly wrong. It was a bit like drinking a colorful, fruity-looking...
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Nathaniel Buckingham
- Dec 31, 2019
- 3 min
Review of Story of Your Life, and Others by Ted Chiang
I’d heard of Ted Chiang; in the city of science fiction, he is the architect always erecting the newest marvel in the art center every...
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Nathaniel Buckingham
- Dec 23, 2019
- 7 min
Eight Tips to Be a Better Writer
You’re here because you want to write. You want to write good things. Things that resonate. Things that matter. But to do that, you have...
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