50 Reasons You Should Be A Bookworm
Let’s face it: I’m a bookworm. Some people might think that spending hours mulling over an old paperback edition of a Russian novel will help you with nothing. But there are many reasons why you should...
View ArticleMethod to the Madness: 10 Essential Novels About Insanity
Authors have often been bound to the cruelties of their own obsession. When inspiration strikes in all hours of the day, when writing a single sentence can exhaust the most firm-footed of minds, and...
View Article20 Classic Novels You’ve Never Heard of
When I ask people about their favorite classic novels, I usually get a similar response from everybody: Jane Austen, A couple Brontës’, A few Dickens’, an odds-and-ends collection of complex modernist...
View ArticleFifteen Essential Novels About New York City
“I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it – overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.” – F.Scott...
View ArticleThe Great Gatsby and The Death of Subtlety
The newest Hollywood rendition of The Great Gatsby is more lavish, colorful, loud and crazy than ever before. So why does it feel like something’s missing? For anyone who has seen the newest Hollywood...
View Article20 Great Russian Novels You Should Read Right Now
Russia’s output of great literature over two centuries is nothing short of miraculous. Having endured tyranny under their czarist regime, as well as great suffering during two world wars and under...
View ArticleQwiklit’s Weekly Companion – June 8th-June 15th
This has been a relatively turbulent week in the news, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for literature. So here is a brief list of some of the more relevant news and the books you can read...
View ArticleWhy Magazines Need Fiction in the Digital Age
With the landscape of online news publications rapidly changing, how will large publications keep up with the democratization of articles? Perhaps the answer is not as obvious as people think. Much...
View ArticleHow To Write Poetry: Five Pieces of Advice from E.E. Cummings
You will seldom find poetry that slips off the tongue as well as E.E. Cummings’. Writing some of his best verse at the height of the more serious modernist movement, he defied the popular conventions...
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