+20 Now that May, which was the month of Gatsby, has died down, I feel like it’s time for a different sort of discussion. May was positively filled with articles discussing Gatsby, and rightly so. The discussions were dis-jointed:…
+20 Now that May, which was the month of Gatsby, has died down, I feel like it’s time for a different sort of discussion. May was positively filled with articles discussing Gatsby, and rightly so. The discussions were dis-jointed:…
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00 What a journey it’s been. I have been with The Washington Pastime for 14 months. And for all of that time, The Washington Pastime has been my literary home. This platform helped me to find my voice; and today, I’m…
00 The dystopian craze is on the verge of becoming an epidemic. Yet while the future is bleak within their pages, there is a tremendous amount of hope to be found in the unsettling future of this widely popular genre.…
00 With all of the fuss leading up to movies like The Avengers and Dark Knight Rises, it’s no wonder that superheroes have once again taken hold of the hearts and imaginations of our country. Don’t get me wrong –…
00 “A gift is not weighed and measured, nor can it be bought. It can’t be expected or demanded; rather it is granted, or it is not. In theological terms it’s a grace, proceeding from the fullness of being. One…
00 “…It may be that some great masterpiece that deserves immortality has fallen still-born from the press, but posterity will never hear of it; it may be that posterity will scrap all the best sellers of our day, but it…
00 There is a war about to begin, yet no blood will be shed. There is a change coming, yet, as is the way of things, most people won’t notice anything unusual. On one side, the rhetoric reads “what is…
00 At a time when prominent authors like Margaret Atwood are arguing for an increase in literacy (a direct result, she argues, of the internet and Twitter), and novelists (of all creeds) are seeming more “real” and accessible than ever…
00 Mike Vidafar holds an Associate’s Degree in Biology and is a Baccalaureate of Stony Brook University’s Department of English. He currently works as a Hospital Administrator, and has previously worked as a staff journalist for New York Press. In…
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