As Bridget said earlier, you might walk into the Iwasaki Library and ask, “Where are all the books?” Well, she’s right, Emerson’s Library does seem rather disappointing at first, but spend some time in there and find all the good stuff the library has to offer.
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Patrick’s Rebuttal: Iwasaki Library!
September 8th, 2009 1 Comment
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You Put Down the Pen and Pick Up What?
July 23rd, 2009 1 Comment
Writers are creative people, right? I mean, that’s what writing is, creating. I’m wondering, though, what are you creating when you’re not writing? As for me, I’m a doodler first. I began drawing and painting many years before I ever decided to write anything, so when I need a break from writing, that’s one of [...]
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Gatsby Goes Gangster On Your Hind Parts
July 16th, 2009 1 Comment
I’ve made it fairly apparent that I love all things Gatsby, and about 80% of my posts on Vernacular have some sort of reference to The Great Gatsby. Well, I have recently been catching up on (read: developing a healthy addiction to) The Wire. I know, I know, I’m a little late on the awesome [...]
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Literary Destinations in Massachusetts
July 9th, 2009 1 Comment
I’ve written before that sometimes I need to get out of Boston and rediscover that Massachusetts has lots of green green trees. Since last week was the end of my summer class, I took advantage of the long July 4th weekend to have a nice relaxing weekend out of the city. The town of Lenox [...]
More On Plagiarism?
June 18th, 2009 1 Comment
This week has apparently been a big one for literature and suing. This instance concerns The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye by a guy calling himself John David (J.D.) California. I say calling himself because his real name is Frederik Colting. California’s book concerns a [...]
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Recommended Reading (according to Neil Gaiman and some others)
June 11th, 2009 No Comments
I don’t really like to re-post things from around the internet unless it’s particularly interesting, and I this counts in my opinion, plus it continues our theme of summer reading. Last week, Salon.com asked a bunch of authors what they were reading and what they would recommend. Even though some of the books/subject mentioned don’t [...]
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Summer Goals - 500 Words a Day
June 2nd, 2009 1 Comment
Since everyone else is making (and seemingly meeting) their summer writing goals, I figured I’d hop on the bandwagon and attempt to restart my goal of writing 500 words a day. Why 500, because I’m a very very slow writer and 500 words isn’t very intimidating. I know what 500 words looks like, and when [...]
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Literary Comics
May 18th, 2009 1 Comment
Nothing big here, I just wanted to share an amusing comic strip I found a few weeks ago.
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Leisure Reading (again!)
May 7th, 2009 3 Comments
Hey Old Sports, it seems like it’s been awhile since I’ve posted, but here I amAt the end of last term, I wrote a post about leisure reading and how the end of the term means being able to read the books I want to read (instead of class reading, obviously). Well it’s that time [...]
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Life Lessons from Books
April 16th, 2009 No Comments
In Roy Kamada’s Pacific Scatterings: Asian Diaspora class that I’m currently taking, one of the common themes throughout all the readings is the construction of identity. Now, of course, there are an uncountable number of forces working around us, shaping the people we will become, whether we know it or not.
All this talk of why [...]
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