By Alexa Smith, 2018-19 Fiction Editor I performed a speedy pre-scan of Beth Ann Fennelly’s 52 micro-memoirs, Heating and Cooling. I stopped at page 63. The word Beyoncé caught my eye at the top right-hand side of the page. I knew this book and…
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The Friction of Friendship: Review of Elena Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend”
by Leah Bradford, 2018-19 Assistant Fiction Editor Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo live in a poor neighborhood in Naples in Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend. They crave knowledge through a formal education, but they do not understand the structure of academia. They do not…
by Rebecca Wesloh, 2018-19 Marketing Director What are you afraid of? This is a central question to Megan Stielstra‘s book of essays, The Wrong Way to Save Your Life. The collection was published in August of 2017 with some of the essays previously published…