By Justin Tenley on October 28, 2009
During the 2008 presidential election, Republican nominee Ron Paul may have been the candidate with the least mainstream coverage. However, that did not stop him from becoming the most popular candidate on the internet as well as sparking a bipartisan revolution of college-aged activists.
Surprisingly, much of his base is made up of [...]
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By Justin Tenley on October 7, 2009
Two servings of failed shoplifting attempts and five servings of vague relationships compose the formula for Tao Lin’s first published novella, Shoplifting from an American Apparel. This is Lin’s formula for the book, not mine.
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By Justin Tenley on September 23, 2009
“A Gate at the Stairs” by Lorrie Moore
The biggest problem with writing about characters who are emotionally “detached” from society and other people is you risk your reader becoming emotionally “detached” from your characters and, likewise, your work as a whole.
Fortunately, author Lorrie Moore has proven many times writing about the human [...]
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By Justin Tenley on April 15, 2009
Alexander Reyna, a New York based traditional/digital artist and graphics designer visited the campus on Friday April, 10, giving a lecture to a few dozen students at Meyer’s Auditorium.
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By Justin Tenley on April 8, 2009
It has been three years since Charles de Lint took a break from writing adult novels to focus on more of a teenage audience.
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By Justin Tenley on April 1, 2009
Donald Hall, the 14th U.S. Poet Laureate and author of 15 poetry anthologies, visited the campus the evening of Wednesday, March 25th as an early way to usher in the National Poetry Month of April.
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By Justin Tenley on March 25, 2009
Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the #1 New York Times Bestselling series, Gossip Girl, finally exposes the events that take place prior to the happenings of the series in, It Had To Be You, the Gossip Girl prequel. In the novel, the reader is given an insider’s glimpse of what life is like for a rich teenage resident of New York City’s Upper East Side.
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By Justin Tenley on March 18, 2009
In Haruki Murakami’s novel After Dark, Mari is a girl who, for her entire life, has lived unnoticed in her older, magazine modeling sister’s shadow. As a result, Mari has become increasingly independent, academic, and anti-social as her freshman year of college quickly approaches.
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By Justin Tenley on February 25, 2009
It may seem a little farfetched, but when I browse a bookstore for my next read, I imagine the process is similar in scope to meeting that special someone at a dating auction. I don’t want to take home just anyone; I want somebody special.
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By Justin Tenley on February 11, 2009
Where is the one place you can find dolphins clubbing humans to death, bears who throw smoke bombs, clinically depressed hamsters, and Elijah Wood all coexisting not so peacefully together? The answer is in Tao Lin’s latest novel to date, Eeeee Eee Eeee. The title, refering to the sounds dolphins make while attempting to interact with humans is one that is suitable for the bizarre ride this novel will take the reader for.
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