This week, we had the pleasure of speaking with Shriya Sekhsaria, the founder of Lumhaa. The India-born, New York-based author created Lumhaa to help people (re)live their own memories as well as memories around the world through virtual reality, mobile apps, and websites.
Read More"Kevin considers the word ‘terracotta.’ Matches it to the squash-hued clay he’d watched Colby abuse for the credits he needed to pass his art elective."
Read MoreBeing a writer of color offers many opportunities to bring new experiences and stories to a predominantly white world of literature. I have said it before and will continue to do so...
Read MoreThe joyful cooked earth of Renaissance Florence is a pure landscape, matching the city's warm sky, red roofs, and yellow light. Produced largely by three generations of Florence’s famous...
Read MoreWe recently had the opportunity to have a lovely chat with Gordi, an Australian-based musician who is releasing her debut album, Reservoir, tomorrow. The 24-year-old songwriter spoke to us about...
Read More"She wears a lavender, polyester tank, and she is glowing."
Read MoreI’ve never read a book written in the Korean language. As a native speaker of the language who has lived in the United States for over a decade, I can say this with modest shame, but I can’t help...
Read MoreSimultaneously whimsical and dark, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five stretches the genre of the dystopian and possibly expands beyond it. The narrative focuses on Billy Pilgrim,...
Read MoreMy trip to Rome focused so much on the past because it's impossible to ignore it in that city; the residue of thousands of years is visible in a uniquely Roman way. You can take a modern cab...
Read More"But I am not with him, and he is not with me."
Read MoreI have always struggled with the notion that people of color, for some odd reason, cannot seem to exist in the literary worlds of fantasy and adventure. As a huge fan of the Fantasy/Adventure/Sci-Fi...
Read MoreThree years ago, in the bedroom of Stephanie Knipe, the puzzle pieces of Adult Mom started fitting together. Knipe, a New York native who identifies as genderqueer, began using music...
Read MoreIn Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian classic, a fireman’s job is to find the houses where books were illegally hidden. He then burns both the books and their not-so safe havens...
Read MoreI spent the second half of June all’estero, abroad in Rome, Florence, and Venice. It was both familiar (from episodes of Rick Steves’ Europe and coffee-table art books) and unknown (estero means...
Read MoreImagine a six-piece band hailing from Montclair, New Jersey, a quaint town of less than 40,000 residents. Four vocalists, three guitars, a bass, some drums, and the keys. This band has revitalized what precisely it means to be an indie band...
Read MoreIf you have ever been afraid of becoming your parents, only to find out that you are more similar to them than you would like to admit, Sarah Satterlee's “Traveler” will strike a chord with you...
Read MoreAfter a long and strenuous summer, I decided to treat myself to a little book haul, picking up three recent titles that’d I’d been eyeing for a while. For this week’s article, I would like to discuss...
Read More"The space between the house and the barn, between his two respective lives, is lined with oaks and acorns."
Read MoreAt the beginning of Part Three, the prison releases Alex after he successfully demonstrates the effects of Ludovico’s Technique. To those who experimented on him, Alex is the image of a bad-to-good...
Read MoreHaving spent some time traveling across Europe and developing my taste for its rich artistic history, as well as finding my footing in the modern examples often blended in with days of past, I am always on the lookout for new and unusual hidden gems across Europe.
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