Author Archives: Laura

Book Review: “Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: a New English Version” by Phillip Pullman

by Laura Posted on November 26, 2012

I won an ARC of this book via the awesome giveaway section of Goodreads, and I did a little happy dance because this whole process is so new to me and I actually WON something. So, please don’t shoot me … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Book Reviews, Fiction, Short Story Collection, YA Fiction | Tagged book review, brothers grimm, children, collection, fairy tales, philip pullman, YA fiction | 6 Comments

A Poem for Your Thanksgiving Day

by Laura Posted on November 22, 2012

I have been in this weird sort of stress transition. My MA exam is over and passed, so now I have all these other things – a paper, an article, a conference presentation, a thesis – looming that I was … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros

by Laura Posted on November 18, 2012

After reading heavy texts for the dread MA exam, which I thankfully passed, I was in need of something different. A friend put The House on Mango Street in my hands, and I quickly read through Cisneros’s novella. And then … Continue reading →

Posted in 20th Century, Book Reviews, Books by Women, Fiction, YA Fiction | Tagged book review, fiction, sandra cisneros, the house on mango street, YA fiction | 3 Comments

Some Tuesday Poetry

by Laura Posted on October 30, 2012

On Friday I take the dread MA exam, the one I’ve been studying for these past seven months or so. My brain is too full of those books to concentrate on any other reading until then, so in the meantime … Continue reading →

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The Process of Writing – Sounds

by Laura Posted on October 24, 2012

I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about how people write. Not just making pretty metaphors or 708 Shakespeare allusions so everyone knows how cool you are (wait, do people still do that, or is that just all the white … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged music, video, writing | 2 Comments

Just Read This Poem

by Laura Posted on October 21, 2012

…because it’s awesome and it’s Sunday, and what else do you have going on? so you want to be a writer if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked … Continue reading →

Posted in Spread the Word | Tagged charles bukowski, poem, poetry, writing | 1 Comment

New Magazine on the Scene: Sundog Lit

by Laura Posted on October 14, 2012

I have been following Sundog Lit on twitter for a while now, anticipating the release of their first issue. I stumbled onto the magazine through random connections on twitter, and I’ve been enamored of the idea ever since. With a … Continue reading →

Posted in News, Uncategorized | Tagged flash fiction, literature, magazine, news, online, poetry | 2 Comments

Book Review: “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston

by Laura Posted on September 24, 2012

As I make my way through the dread MA exit exam reading list, I can’t help but hope for little gems. Earlier in the summer, before we moved, I treated myself by skipping around chronologically, successfully evading Moby-Dick until the very … Continue reading →

Posted in 20th Century, American, Book Reviews, Books by Women, Fiction | Tagged 20th century, african-american, book review, books by women, modernism, zora neale hurston | 2 Comments

Book Review: In Which I Read “Moby-Dick”

by Laura Posted on September 17, 2012

I love a good, dirty, book chat. Get me together with another book-lover and we can go on and on about reading those fantastic, amazing books that change your life. Two of my favorite questions, though, have nothing to do … Continue reading →

Posted in 19th Century, American | Tagged american, book review, herman melville, moby-dick | 5 Comments

Insatiable. Booksluts. That’s Right.

by Laura Posted on September 15, 2012

I’ve been invited to guest post about the classics over at Insatiable Booksluts! I can’t tell you how cool I feel to be associated with that group of awesome people. You can read all my thoughts on Eliot’s “The Waste … Continue reading →

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