Writing Lessons from the Sunshine State

What Lauren Groff's haunting story collection teaches us about thematic unity and formal innovation.  ♦ Florida by Lauren Groff is a collection of stories in which each piece acts as part of a greater whole, featuring different characters and different timelines that all intersect to create...

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Queer Comics for Your Pride-Reading Joy

Have your local events been canceled or postponed this year due to COVID-19? Celebrate Pride Month by picking up one of these queer comics!  ♦  I’m what is known as a “seasonal reader” — love stories are for February, spooky stories are for October, and queer stories are for June. As...

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Find Me: Time, Love, and New Beginnings

Find Me is an unexpected sequel that deals with taking a chance—or even a second chance—to ask, "What if?" As someone who loved Andre Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name and its movie adaption, I greatly anticipated Find Me’s release in October. Even before I read Find Me, the general opinion was...

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From Screen to Sound: The Art of Comic-to-Audio Adaptation

Adapting a book into an audiobook is a fairly straightforward process. But what about an audio comic?  ♦  "Thank you for listening to Adventures in Odyssey!” host Chris Anthony says as she ends the latest episode of the audio drama, and then the CD stops. Seven-year-old me takes the...

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The Phenomenon of Instagram Comics

From our screens to our bookshelves, these social media influencers are contributing to a new type of comic with the click of a button. A couple months ago, my boyfriend and I were lying in bed scrolling through our Instagrams. Out of the blue, my boyfriend laughs and turns his phone for me...

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Book Influencers in the Wild

Take a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of social media's most bookish content creators.  ♦  For years, celebrity book clubs like Oprah’s Book Club have swayed readers’ interests and writers’ popularity with their recommendations. Since the rise of social media, however, there’s...

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The Murderinos Are Afoot

Staying sexy and not getting murdered have never been easier, nor more fun.  ♦  There's nothing quite as thrilling as falling in love with a book within a genre you've never explored before. The realization that suddenly there is an entire plethora of new books to read is a truly empowering...

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