The Origins of Publishing, Part 1
Victor Morrison // Blog Writer The history of publishing stretches much further back than the invention of the printing press or the creation of the book. The idea of leaving…
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When Fiction Gets Real: Dealing with the Death of Your Favorite Fictional Character
Camila Fagen Guitron // Blog Writer Anthony Rodriguez, Emerson College student and avid reader, recalls sitting down with the last book in the Divergent trilogy when his favorite character—who will…
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Stricken Ill with Ferrante Fever
Kyle Labe//Blog Writer In Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, the third installment in Elena Ferrante’s triumphant Neapolitan Novels, the narrator lists for a page everything she wants to…
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The Hero’s Journey and Modern Story Structure
Jonathan Smith // Blog Writer Humans have always had an insatiable appetite for compelling and relatable stories. Philosophers and writers alike have often tried to categorize the essence of an…
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Challenging Gender Stereotypes One Children’s Book at a Time
Angie Haas//Blog Writer Children’s books are perhaps the least diverse genre. Looking back on the books I read as a child — from Curious George to Where the Wild Things…
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Book Review: The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn
Alice Lynch//Blog Writer It isn’t often that a book can keep you up through the night. It’s even rarer that it keeps you up through the next, or the next,…