I’m coming up on deadline time for my biggest project at my Internship this summer. I love crunch time. I love being busy. So while I’m exhausted, I’m in the mood to work. I’m trying to figure out some details for the Setonian (student paper of Seton Hill University) this fall, I’m the EiC. If … More Editorial Ponderings
Somehow I missed that Anna Karenina was being remade into a movie this year. And let me tell you, the trailer looks truly gorgeous! It look sensuous and whirling and everything a film adaptation of Anna Karenina should be. It’s directed by Joe Wright (Atonement and Pride and Prejudice) and the adaptation was written by Tom Stoppard who also … More Anna Karenina: A classic goes to film again
If you are a writer and you haven’t seen Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED talk, WATCH IT NOW. Stop what you are doing. These 20 minutes are, 20 minutes that you didn’t know you needed, but you do. I’ve never read any of Elizabeth Gilbert’s works, but I find her to be wildly inspiring. Her opinions on … More Because writers are just real people struggling
Researcher from the Ohio State University conducted a series of six different experiments on about 500 participants, reporting in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, found that in the right situations, ‘experience-taking,’ may lead to temporary real world changes in the lives of readers. — Psychologists Discover How People Subconsciously Become Their Favorite Fictional Characters … More We are who we read about…
“I started writing poems as a response to that great loss, much the way that people responded, for example, after 9/11,” she told the AP. “People who never had written poems or turned much to poetry turned to it at that moment because it seems like the only thing that can speak the unspeakable.” —Natasha … More New Poet Laureate has one great story
In recent years, Bradbury was still prolific despite the aftereffects of a stroke, according to the AP, “turning out new novels, plays, screenplays and a volume of poetry.” He reportedly wrote daily in the basement office of his home in L.A.’s Cheviot Hills neighborhood, and was a frequent presence at literary events around the city. … More RIP Ray Bradbury
Cleland issued a “decorum order” last Wednesday that said representatives of news organizations could bring tools such as cellphones, laptops and smartphones into the courtoom, but cameras would not be permitted and members of the press using devices could not “record or broadcast any verbatim account of the proceedings while court was in session. —Jerry Sandusky … More Sandusky Trial comes with dangerous limits for reporters
If your Own Personal Jane was a modest little lady writing only to amuse herself and her family, sorry to disappoint. Austen may be many things to many people, but she was always about good sense: personal, social, and fiscal. Don’t rush to judgment, she councils. Listen before you speak. Respect community and individuals, both. Get some … More Literary Politics… What?
So the whole book to movie adaptation is always a little bit scary for book lovers. I admit there is something wonderful about seeing our favorite books visually. Book to movie adaptation also frequently lose a lot. Some things only work in words. There is deep symbolism and metaphors in books that often don’t transfer … More Book Movies… Exciting but Terrifying
I’ve always been a writer. In high school my genre of choice was poetry. Yes, I was that kid. In eighth grade in particular, I would sit in the back of Earth Science and scribble in my notebook. So when I decided to be a journalism major I wasn’t sure how much time I’d have … More Being a journalist and a poet?
Katelyn Garmong 