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: some focused…
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Getting Great, by Mike Vidafar
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Posted in 2013, Non-Fiction, Op-Ed
Posted in 2013, Non-Fiction, Op-Ed
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: RADHA BHARADWAJ
Radha Bharadwaj is an Indian film maker and writer who moved to the U.S. in her late teens. She received her MFA in Radio, TV, and Film from Temple University’s School of Media and Communication, and is most well known…
Tagged with: 2013, additional content, author spotlight
Posted in 2013, Additional Content, Author Spotlight, Non-Fiction
Posted in 2013, Additional Content, Author Spotlight, Non-Fiction
Dystopian Discourse, by Mike Vidafar
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. But…
Superheroes, by Mike Vidafar
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 – I…
The Cure: Overcoming Writer’s Block, by Mike Vidafar
“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 can…
Searching for Resonsance: Sorting Through Preconceptions of “Good” Literature, by Mike Vidafar
“…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 is…
The Literary Battlefront: Blurring the lines between digital and traditional literature, by Mike Vidafar
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 at…
The Plight to Write: The Challenges That Aspiring Writers Face, by Mike Vidafar
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 before,…
Though hands grow cold, the pen stays hot: Why the Winter season is conducive to writing, by Crystal Maitland
Winter is cold, yes, but perhaps it would be better to say that it is honest. Winter whips away the cover of lush leaves and plush petals; wriggles through armor of wool and fleece and down. It is not so…
Reading & Writing Plays, by Laura Bolt
When I was young and growing up in Washington, D.C., I was lucky enough to take advantage of the rich assortment of local theatre. While the changing sets and scenery rarely disappointed, it was the language of the plays that…
