Porn, Poetry, and Picasso: Wayne Koestenbaum’s Irresistible World View
A new collection of "cerebral, smutty essays" called "Figure It Out" offers magical musings on everything from porn to Picasso. Read more ›
Ralph Waldo Emerson Had a Secret Support System: His Daughter
Ralph Waldo Emerson had a hard-working helpmate whose story is not well-known: His daughter Ellen Tucker Emerson. Read more ›
The Art of Crafting the Perfect History Essay
A new book walks students, teachers, and even seasoned writers through the “often unspoken expectations of writing history essays." Read more ›
From Woolf to Hemingway: The Transformation of Literary Dialogue
Prof. Elizabeth Alsop looks at the development and transformation of literary dialogue in fiction novels throughout the centuries, giving it a "greater capacity for signification." Read more ›
Writing Around the Day Job: A Debut Novel Takes Shape
When Raymond Strom graduated with his M.F.A. from The City College of New York in 2009, he wanted to do what he’d just attended school for: write. But life had a different plan. Read more ›
A Bronx Tale in Verse
A Queens College graduate student expounds upon the Bronx's vernacular beauty in a new poem published with 'The New Yorker.' Read more ›
The Numbers: A Daughter of Detroit Tells the Family Secret
A Baruch College professor tells the story of growing up in Detroit with a mother who ran a thriving numbers business, which was an illegal individually-run lottery. Read more ›
SNAPSHOT: College Writing
Many students begin at two-year community colleges and transfer to four-year senior colleges. How prepared are they? Read more ›
Three Tales of Feminism and Friendship
In a new book, a professor recounts three foundational friendships that helped her navigate the fraught nature of academia. Read more ›