What’s Old is New

I’ve been perusing my old literature book, a compendium of fiction, poetry and drama. Sometimes I still forget how wonderful classic fiction is. The Brothers Grimm, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, and, most recently, Alice Walker.
Alice Walker’s Everyday Use is a short story I can easily relate to. It explores a matter [...]

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The Lovely Bones

The Lovely Bones
By Alice Sebold / Lit. Fiction / Hardcover / 336 pages
Grade: A+
“My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.”
While I was still enrolled at the CPC in New York, I came back to Jersey to visit a few friends for [...]

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Movies & Graphic Novels!

The writers’ workshop didn’t get a chance to go to see the Espresso Book Machine last week after all. Schedules didn’t match up, so we’re going to wait for another week. Right now, our serial publication is in full swing, and we have a setting established for our main story. We still hope to have [...]

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