by Cole Salao
There’s a rhythm to storytelling. Sometimes it’s a rapid movement that pushes you to the brink of excitement; other times it’s an intimate dance that slowly builds upon your anxieties and expectations. This is called pacing. The best storytellers...
by Kaelyn Barron
What started as Star Wars fanfiction reimagining a romance between Kylo and Rey turned into one of the most hyped books of 2021. The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood tells the story of Olive Smith, a biology Ph.D. candidate who doesn’t believe in lasting...
by Kaelyn Barron
If you devoured all 15 books in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series and even watched the first season of Amazon’s adaptation, you may be looking for something to tide you over until the next season premieres. Lucky for you, there are plenty of original...
by Cole Salao
There are characters who appear time and again in television and literature. You know who they are and can pretty much sum up their roles in a single sentence. These people are called stock characters. They represent a certain type of person that is readily...
by Kaelyn Barron
Although Elena Ferrante is one of today’s most prolific writers, her identity remains a mystery. The Italian author writes under a pseudonym and insists that her anonymity is a precondition for her work. With the publication and subsequent translation of her...
