Literary Event Today!
If you have some time this afternoon, why not catch an event with two award-winning authors and a leading literary critic, all of them (virtually) here at Rutgers? Acclaimed poet … Read More
Nicholas Allred
Book for a Desert Island: Nick’s Pick
Jenny’s post is right: the obvious, and boring, choice would be a survival guide of some sort. As an eighteenth-century specialist, I’d even be tempted to get too cute and … Read More
Cite Right – Confessions of an Edition Ignoramus
In honor of our Cite Right workshop, which emphasizes the importance of signaling the edition you’re using so that others can check your sources, I have a confession to make: … Read More
Literary Celebrities as Musical Celebrities: An Exploration
Because I teach literature, the idea for this blog post came from the classroom: how do you explain the persona of an author in terms that students can immediately grasp? … Read More
Banned Books Week 2020: Introduction to Banned Books
On October 1st, the Student College, Academic, and Research Libraries Association (SCARLA) and the Library and Information Science Student Association (LISSA) here at Rutgers held a virtual banned books “read-in.” … Read More
Tales We Read: Eight Bites
Join Tales We Read Tales We Read was kicked off on September 23, 2020 with a sprint and flash! In the first session we are reading and discussing a short … Read More
Face to (Virtual) Face with Joyce Carol Oates
We were incredibly lucky to have author Joyce Carol Oates join us for a reading from her short story “Where Is Here?” and a discussion drawn from audience-submitted questions. What … Read More
Summer Tales Update: In the Homestretch
Following up on our successful Neil Gaiman discussion, the Summer Tales Book Club turned to a classic: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Sleeping and Waking,” a piece about insomnia that straddles the … Read More
Summer Tales Update: Our First Discussion is in the Books!
Over at the Summer Tales project we’ve wrapped up a successful month-long discussion of Neil Gaiman’s short story “How to Talk to Girls at Parties“! Students brought a lot of … Read More
Launching Summer Tales
Books We Read has some exciting news: New Brunswick Libraries and the Department of Continuing Studies have teamed up to launch Summer Tales Book Club, a short story discussion group … Read More