McFerron’s Authors of Revolution: Henry Rollins
https://bit.ly/3qqLGna Welcome back, everyone. These past few weeks since my last blog, I’ve found myself incapable of focusing on anything other than the history of punk music and culture. For this...
View ArticleMeet the Authors: Carrie McGath
Hello, readers! Welcome to the first edition of “Meet the Authors,” a series for the visiting authors that grace Lewis University with their presence. On March 3rd, the University welcomed Dr. Carrie...
View ArticleMeet The Editors: Sylvia Szewczyk
Welcome back, everyone! This week we would like to introduce the author of Sylvia’s Psychological Summaries, Sylvia Szewczyk! Sylvia graduated in May of 2021 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Human...
View ArticleJason’s Metal Library: Xanadu
https://bit.ly/3Dqdi15 To immediately get this out of the way, I want to state that this blog may have metal in the name, but we will discuss classic and progressive rock. As such, let’s begin by...
View ArticleMeet the Authors: Rita Mookerjee
Hello again, Readers! As promised, we are continuing the Meet the Authors series with our profile on Dr. Rita Mookerjee. Dr. Mookerjee followed Dr. Carrie McGath’s presentation which you can read...
View ArticleMeet The Editors: Haley Leon
Welcome back, everyone! We hope the month of March was kind to you! Today we’d like to introduce our Art and Design editor, Haley Leon. Haley is a junior at Lewis University majoring in Aviation...
View ArticleMcFerron’s Authors of Revolution: Fyodor Dostoevsky
https://bit.ly/3uN5rXr Fyodor Dostoevsky is widely regarded as one of the best novelists to ever write, and the best Russian novelist of all time. All in all, Dostoevsky wrote 15 novels before his...
View ArticleLauren’s Etude to Eden: Good Omens, “Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy,” and “39”
https://bit.ly/3qZPSuu Now I will admit, despite being in the ideal target demographic, I never got into Superwholock when I was younger. For any unaware of this unfortunate phenomenon, Superwholock...
View ArticlePeck’s Programming a Narrative: Level Design
https://bit.ly/3LCaVew Last blog I explored the use of cutscenes in videogames and how they are used or in some cases overused. As I was exploring different cutscenes on the internet and replaying...
View ArticleSylvia’s Psychological Summaries: The Tattooist of Auschwitz
https://bit.ly/3Jtcqdv There’s something that I wanted to get off of my chest before I start talking about the book for this week’s blog. Recently, the second season of Bridgerton dropped and yes, of...
View ArticleMeet The Editors: Jason Ludtke
Welcome back, everybody! For our last Meet the Editors of this semseter, we’d like to introduce one of our prose editors and author of Jason’s Metal Library, Jason Ludtke! Jason is a Junior at Lewis...
View ArticlePeck’s Programming a Narrative: Jack into the Matrix!
https://bit.ly/3OdDzVk Throughout this blog series, I have discussed various ways a developer can use the unique medium of video games to tell a story. Player choice allows the developer to create...
View ArticleMcFerron’s Authors of Revolution: David Foster Wallace’s response to...
https://bit.ly/3rQw3Gn David Foster Wallace was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He’s best known for his novel Infinite Jest, which totals at 1,079 pages. He’s widely regarded...
View ArticleMcFerron’s Authors of Revolution: Hanya Yanagihara
https://bit.ly/3LLETOC Welcome back, everyone! I hope you all had a great summer and are enjoying the weather as we transition into autumn. This summer I spent a lot of time, though not as much as I...
View ArticleSpangler’s From Sentence to Screen: Stardust
https://bit.ly/3SJPWup Stardust is a 2007 fantasy adventure film directed by Matthew Vaughn and stars an ensemble cast led by Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mark Strong and Robert De...
View ArticleLauren’s Etude to Eden: Loveless and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”
https://bit.ly/3RFzcTJ Hello everyone, and welcome back to the blog! It has been a wild summer and I spent a lot of money on books (as usual). However, I have yet to read the vast majority of them....
View ArticleSpangler’s From Sentence to Screen: Sleepy Hollow
https://bit.ly/3F25uW4 Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 gothic supernatural horror film directed by Tim Burton starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci, with Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, and Casper Van...
View ArticleMcFerron’s Authors of Revolution: Milan Kundera
https://bit.ly/3TsSfSD Milan Kundera is both widely praised and somehow overlooked in talks of influential postmodern authors and poets of the 20th and 21st centuries. Kundera was born in 1929 in...
View ArticleSpangler’s From Sentence to Screen: The Witches
https://bit.ly/3NAoNrI The Witches, is a 2020 supernatural comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, and stars Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, and is narrated by Chris Rock. It is based...
View ArticleMcFerron’s Authors of Revolution: Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
https://bit.ly/3E4gBNl Hello and welcome back, everyone! These past few weeks, since my blog about Milan Kundera, I’ve had difficulty finding the time to sit down and read a full-length novel that I...
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