10 Must-Watch Page-to-Screen Adaptations for Film Buffs
By Wesley Sharer Award show season is just beginning, and as we look forward to the Oscars (and the Fauxscars), it seems the perfect time…
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Escape to the Big Top: A Review of The Night Circus
By Kelsey Liebenson-Morse The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The opening lines of…
What’s Next?: 5 Books to Read after Ender’s Game and The Hunger Games
By Wesley Sharer In the wake of the recent adaptations of Ender’s Game and The Hunger Games, science fiction readers everywhere are salivating for more…
Literary Traveler Holiday Gift Guide 2013
The closer we get to Thanksgiving (and Black Friday), the more our inboxes are inundated with guides to the newest, hottest, most sought-after items for…
Stocking Stuffers for the Literary Traveler
While finishing up your holiday shopping, you may be looking for that elusive something extra: the perfect stocking stuffer. After all, sometimes these small tokens…
Orange is the New Black: The Memoir Behind the Hit Series
By Kelsey A. Liebenson-Morse In Piper Kerman’s 2011 memoir, Orange Is The New Black, Kerman takes the reader “inside” her fifteen-month prison sentence at Danbury…
Powell’s Books: Portland’s Iconic Independent Bookstore
By Alyssa Smith Ranked higher than a visit to the International Rose Test Garden or a bite from one of Voodoo Doughnut’s creatively named pastries,…
The Counselor: Cormac McCarthy as Screenwriter and Why it Works
By Amanda Festa Based on the trailer alone, The Counselor was a movie that my dad and I could agree on. He likes action and…
Ender’s Game — What to Expect from the Film Adaptation
By Wesley Sharer Ender’s Game, which we recommended as part of our Summer Reading Challenge, is a 1985 science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card,…
Revisiting Jane: A Marriage Plot for the Modern Day
By Amanda Festa “We had a long discussion about the comparative merits of Mr. Darcy and Mark Darcy, both agreeing that Mr. Darcy was more…