Joyce Carol Oates Perspective: A Powerful Teacher
Between my previous education experience and my current studies as a Masters of Information candidate I have spent the majority of my life in school. As a perpetual student I … Read More
Between my previous education experience and my current studies as a Masters of Information candidate I have spent the majority of my life in school. As a perpetual student I … Read More
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
Have you ever noticed that once you start paying attention to something – or someone – you seem to bump into it/him/her everywhere? Some call it Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon; I prefer … Read More
As we are closing to wrap up our Summer Reading program this week with a series of blog posts with our reflections, first, here is a list of findings participants … Read More
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
Come hear acclaimed writer Joyce Carol Oates read from and talk about her short story “Where Is Here?”! Oates is a National Book Award winner, a five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and one … Read More
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
Summer in New Jersey? Whether you are staycationing or longing to come back to campus, we’ve got you covered! Browse our summer reading recommendations below until the reopening of Rutgers … Read More
As hosts of the Summer Tales Book Club reading program delivered in Canvas in the summer of 2020 as a joint initiative of Summer Session and New Brunswick Libraries, we … Read More
(or the peculiar motives to read) It’s no secret that we at Books We Read also host the Summer Tales Book Club, the reading program of the Rutgers Summer Session … Read More