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Courage to Create

The Courage to Create

June 11, 2018 By Leilani Squire 7 Comments

In the early 1980s when I studied choreography with Dr. Alma Hawkins at Santa Monica Community College, The Courage to Create by Rollo May was on the reading list for the class. You may wonder: Why would there be a reading list for a dance class? ...

How Storytelling Can Guide Us: On Toni Morrison’s “God Help the Child”

January 4, 2018 By Leilani Squire Leave a Comment

God Help the Child

As we near the end of 2017, our country continues to be embroiled in this year’s sexual harassment scandals from “How stupid could he have been to grope the air in front of a sleeping woman’s ...

Liu Xiaobo: Tyranny, Freedom of Conscience, and the Incompleteness of the Individual

September 20, 2017 By Sandra Fluck 2 Comments

Liu Xiaobo

“The unique thing about man is that he is capable of being aware of his tragic fate; he can be aware of the fact that he will die; he can be aware that the ultimate meaning of the universe and life ...

Florence Osmund – Author Study

June 23, 2017 By Piper Templeton Leave a Comment

Florence Osmund author study

Florence Osmund writes layered novels centered on characters trying to find home in a literal and figurative sense. The novels explore how integral family is to each character and how family can ...

When you find the book to inspire you

February 22, 2017 By Leilani Squire 3 Comments

when the book you read finds you

Sometimes a book will appear in my life for a reason. Perhaps this is the case more often than not and the reason I picked up My Beloved World when I did and read it when I did. Justice Sotomayor’s ...

1984 – Has Orwell’s World Arrived?

February 14, 2017 By Leilani Squire 2 Comments

1984 - Has Orwell's World Arrived?

When I was fourteen or fifteen, a group of classmates and I read four books within a few months: 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World and Lord of the Flies. Our young minds were seeking, exploring, and ...

Regret and relationship in the fiction of Maria Savva

December 5, 2016 By Piper Templeton 2 Comments

Fiction of Maria Savva

Maria Savva brings the reader deeply into the human conscience and inner psyche of her characters. Her fiction expertly weaves moral ambiguities, deep-seated memories, and modern challenges into ...

Memories from my bookshelf

November 4, 2016 By Ronne Troup Leave a Comment

Sometimes unread books on a bookshelf are as good as a diary entry to jog the memory. You look at the spine of a novel you bought twenty years ago at the Strand bookstore in New York. You were with so ...

The Journey of a Novel

October 10, 2016 By Piper Templeton 3 Comments

journey of a novel essay by Piper Templeton

After taking a couple of non-credit creative writing classes at our local university in the early 2000s, some fellow students and I formed a critique group. We got together every other Thursday night, ...

Reading is Personal

September 28, 2016 By Glenn Schiffman 4 Comments

My mother taught me to read simple sentences by the time I was three. And from then on I was required to read a book a week, any book but it had to be challenging, until about the 7th grade. When I ...

Readers and Writers: A Dance of Reciprocity

September 20, 2016 By Sandra Fluck 4 Comments

Readers and Writers: A Dance of Reciprocity

Reading is like exercise. You have to practice it. Call it the sit-down practice of exercising your mental and emotional acuities. Even though you aren’t sweating while you turn the pages, you are ...

A Bookworm’s Travelogue

August 18, 2016 By Ken Klemm 1 Comment

bookworm's travelogue

My parents were avid readers, for which I am very grateful. I have loved reading from an early age, thanks to strong encouragement in my household. We had books everywhere, and I relished those ...

The Longform Book Review

December 12, 2015 By Sandra Fluck 3 Comments

The longform book review on bookscover2cover is a combination of narrative, descriptive, and analytical style and is typically more than 1500 words in length. In this essay by founder Sandra Fluck, we ...

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Chris Pellizzari and the influence of Federico García Lorca

Chris Pellizzari is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His short stories ...

Reyna Marder Gentin, writer and author of “Unreasonable Doubts”

Reyna Marder Gentin grew up in Great Neck, New York. She attended college and law school at Yale. ...

Chaya Bhuvaneswar, writer and author of “White Dancing Elephants”

White Dancing Elephants is a finalist for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards. Chaya Bhuvaneswar ...

Renee Hodges, author of the memoir “Saving Bobby: Heroes and Heroin in One Small Community”

Originally from Louisiana, Renee Hodges has lived in Durham, North Carolina, for the past 30 years ...

David Wind on Persistence and Inspiration in Prolific Writing

David Wind has published thirty-nine novels including Science Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Thrillers ...

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