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Ursula K. Le Guin created a body of work that merged her scientific, philosophical interests with her narrative talent, and her 1974...

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Ursula K. Le Guin was a Grand Master of science fiction and fantasy, a literary legend that expanded her creativity even to children’s...

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Paradox and Time Travel as Constructs for the Meaning of Life in “All You Zombies— ” - REVIEW

Robert A. Heinlein’s short story “All You Zombies—” (1959) is a science fiction masterpiece dealing with deterministic time travel and a...

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Playing with Memory: the Narrative Puzzle in Memento

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan in 2000, Memento is a movie that plays with its audience by using a scenic puzzle structure,...

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Portraying Nonfictional Tragedy: Krakauer’s "Into the Wild" and Its Filmic Adaptation - REVIEW

At the young age of twenty-four, Chris McCandless sought the adventure of a lifetime, which culminated into a trip to the Alaskan...

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The Communal Experience of First-Person Plural in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” - REVIEW

As the first published story of William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” (1930) non-linearly follows the eponymous character Emily Grierson,...

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Authenticity and Racial Humor with Epistolary Format in “Belles Lettres” - REVIEW

Nafissa Thompson-Spires’ 2019 acclaimed debut Heads of the Colored People is the short stories collection where, at one point, two black...

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Multiperspectivity as Self-Awareness of the World in “The Author of the Acacia Seeds” - REVIEW

Ursula K. Le Guin created a body of work that merged her scientific, philosophical interests with her narrative talent, and her 1974...

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Christopher Nolan's "Memento" - Script Coverage

TITLE: Memento AUTHOR: Christopher Nolan FORM: Feature Screenplay LOCALE: Los Angeles CIRCA: Modern, Present Day...

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Hybrid Novels at Their Finest with Danielewski’s "The Fifty Year Sword" - REVIEW

THE FIFTY YEAR SWORD by Mark Z Danielewski. 100 pp. Pantheon Books, 2012. $26. As we have come to expect from Danielewski, a novel (or...

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'Scalpelling' the Persona with Narrative Poetry in Alex Lemon’s Mosquito - REVIEW

Alex Lemon’s lyrical debut Mosquito (Tin House Books, 2006) is the autobiographical journey of someone undergoing brain surgery and their...

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The Unhinged Beauty of Collage Writing in Burroughs’ “Johnny 23” - REVIEW

In his divine mission to extinguish the “virus from outer space” that is language, the famous ex-addict William Burroughs uses the cut-up...

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The funky corner for Johanna's thoughts, ideas, and everything in between.

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Multiperspectivity as Self-Awareness of the World in “The Author of the Acacia Seeds” - REVIEW

A Discovery of Home in Ursula K. Le Guin’s "Catwings"

Paradox and Time Travel as Constructs for the Meaning of Life in “All You Zombies— ” - REVIEW

Playing with Memory: the Narrative Puzzle in Memento

Portraying Nonfictional Tragedy: Krakauer’s "Into the Wild" and Its Filmic Adaptation - REVIEW

The Communal Experience of First-Person Plural in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” - REVIEW

Authenticity and Racial Humor with Epistolary Format in “Belles Lettres” - REVIEW

Multiperspectivity as Self-Awareness of the World in “The Author of the Acacia Seeds” - REVIEW

Christopher Nolan's "Memento" - Script Coverage

Hybrid Novels at Their Finest with Danielewski’s "The Fifty Year Sword" - REVIEW

'Scalpelling' the Persona with Narrative Poetry in Alex Lemon’s Mosquito - REVIEW

The Unhinged Beauty of Collage Writing in Burroughs’ “Johnny 23” - REVIEW