Over the last two weeks an author’s debut book rose to glory, atop the New York Times Bestseller list, only to crumble. Lani Sarem’s book, Handbook for Mortals, was announced last month. When it suddenly shot to #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list, surpassing Angie Thomas’s “The Hate U Give,” which sat at #1 on …
A Plethora of Ice & Fire
Texas A&M University is well known for being a hub for agriculture. Being in College Station, TX, that certainly makes sense for the demographic of students flocking to the campus- over 60,000 annual enrollees, in fact. Another demographic that flocks to Texas A&M every year is, unusually, Sci-Fi and Fantasy nerds. Since 1969 a school …
Literature as a Rehabilitation Tool
Prisons are underfunded, overcrowded, misunderstood establishments meant to keep and rehabilitate judicial offenders in our society. We often don’t bat an eyelash at the thought of life there, or the process of rehabilitation. If we truly want prisoners to become the best versions of themselves – to emerge anew, ready for society, then we have …
Combating Censorship in Literature
“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” –Laurie Halse Anderson Banning books has long been a way for organizations to exert power over people; thinking that ideologies and passions can be swayed by hindering access to materials, history has repeated itself time and time again. The thought is that without …
The Joystick Club
We’re no strangers to books being adapted to the screen, whether those adaptations be through movies, television, or the rising ‘on demand’ media such as Netflix or Hulu. Whether or not those adaptations are any good in the eyes of readers is another discussion all together (they’re usually not, TBH), but with the changing tides …