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By Banning Books Do We Challenge Parental Rights?

September 2, 2015

For the purposes of this essay, I’m going to keep the conversation of challenging books, also called banning books, at my local level. I agree there are much larger discussions to be had on freedom of speech and parental rights, but I want this conversation to have a lighter tone, if possible. ...

Comics, Essays, Opinion

Beauty in the Breakdown: The Wicked + The Divine

February 19, 2015

The Wicked + The Divine is a pretty cool comic, guys. You know this, I know this—hell, I’m pretty sure Jamie McKelvie, Kieron Gillen, and Matt Wilson know this. Lots of people have lots of different readings of it and Gillen has been kind enough to provide Writer’s Notes about his work. Still, ...

Art & Design, Interviews, Zines

harlequin creature: One of a Kind Literary Experience

February 4, 2015

*Cover art is the manifesto by Alvey Jones, Jade Fusco, Gustave Morin, Meghan Forbes, Ian Mclellan Davis, Hannah McMurray* I am a lover of literature, and of the special literary treasure that is the lit mag. Lit mags, literary journals, zines, and some graphic novels have so much overlap ...

Opinion

Leave Zoella Alone: Publishing Loves a Sexist Scapegoat as Much as Anyone

December 11, 2014

Day-before-yesterday in publishing: turns out the YouTube-to-bestseller helter-skelter can deliver you right into the croc pit. Zoella, vlog sensation, became the proud recipient of a fastest debut seller ever crown early in December. Then this week, we’re all atwitter because maybe there ...

Comics, Opinion

Britain, Books, Politics: Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan Said “The Ban on Sending Books to Prisoners Was Always an Absurd Policy”

December 9, 2014

If you had to hide drugs, would you hide them in a book? I wouldn’t. And if I was relying on drugs as either a balm or a currency during time spent in prison, would you say “well the exact thing she doesn’t need in her life is books?” No! Because you aren’t a ...

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R/W: A Difficulty with Dialect

October 19, 2014

A Difficulty with Dialect This summer, I read The New Moon’s Arms by Nalo Hopkinson. I didn’t end up enjoying the story, but I did enjoy reading a book that took me back to the country of my birth. Not simply because it was set in Caribbean islands, but because it was written in a dialect I ...

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Kid Comics Go to Class: Comic Book Classroom

September 23, 2014

Comic Book Classroom is a non-profit that implements school programs about art and writing with comic books. Glorious, literacy stimulating comic books. Based in Colorado, the group extends their resources to educational and community institutions free of charge. CBC is volunteer driven, ...

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Giller Prize Longlist revealed!

September 16, 2014

This morning at McGill University, the twelve titles making up the 2014 Giller Prize Longlist were revealed. The Scotiabank Giller Prize is well known as one of the top literary prizes in Canada. Previous winners include Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje and Mordecai Richler. In ...

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R/W: Reading makes you a better person!

August 24, 2014

Over at Book Riot, they’ve rounded up some literary journals designed for e-readers. Woo! But no Symbolia? Shame! New issue out right now. Go. Gooooo. — Megan

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R/W: N Is for No Surviiiiivors!

August 10, 2014

Fun. That’s a thing. A thing that started in the 1680s as a verb, meaning to cheat or trick. “Are you having fun with me?” The word is of uncertain origin — how like fun — but Online Etymology and Google suggest that it comes from the Middle English fon, which ...

Literacy

By Banning Books Do We Challenge Parental Rights?

Beauty in the Breakdown: The Wicked + The Divine

harlequin creature: One of a Kind Literary Experience

Leave Zoella Alone: Publishing Loves a Sexist Scapegoat as Much as Anyone

Britain, Books, Politics: Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan Said “The Ban on Sending Books to Prisoners Was Always an Absurd Policy”

R/W: A Difficulty with Dialect

Kid Comics Go to Class: Comic Book Classroom

Giller Prize Longlist revealed!

R/W: Reading makes you a better person!

R/W: N Is for No Surviiiiivors!

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