When Christohpher Castellani ’94 was a student at Swarthmore, he did not expect to become a writer, let alone the author of…
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall…
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (a nom-de-plume of J.K. Rowling) is a carefully crafted London-based detective novel that succeeds in building…
The upcoming summer away from Swarthmore means a rare window of reading books not dictated by sylabi. For those for whom sudden…
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is one of those things you know about if you’re a writer and don’t give a flying…
Any well-seasoned book is likely to have a few book covers to its name: the hardcover edition, the trade paperback, the mass…
My recent trips to The Netherlands and Brazil surprised me by revealing just how globalized (read: Americanized) the world is: most people…
Like a Triple-A creeper, your beautiful columnist has hunted down the people on campus who use e-readers, invading their personal space for…
I’ve never been one of those people who is up on the latest technology: I still use the iPod nano I got…