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Summer reading doesn’t have to be a chore — not when you can find the right book. Here are some of my favorites available at Penn State University Libraries that

A classic Hispanic-American novel is the selection for next year’s Wichita Big Read. Wichita Public Library officials announced Thursday that “The House on

"The play is about redemption and closure and trying to resolve some of the things that happened to him. ... It never goes away."

Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. We may earn a commission from these links. BettmannGetty Images The Things They Carried The most famous short story about the Vietnam War began at Esquire as veteran Tim O’Brien captured his deployment through tales of the rifles, photographs, and memories that soldiers brought with them. By Tim OBrien May 25, 2021 This is the first chapter of what would become Tim O’Briens award-winning book The Things They Ca...

CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. Ready Player One was an expansive sci-fi action-adventure that introduced audiences to a dystopian world which was simultaneously old and new. More specifically, it centered around the disenfranchised lives of wayward strangers who are connected by their desire to discover the lost fortune of mysterious billionaire James Hal...

Library of books. (Getty) In the spring of 2016, after spending over a decade — my entire career — at the same Boston book publishing company, I began to look for a new job. I secured an interview and showed up with a portfolio of my best marketing campaigns. “These are all for novels,” the person interviewing me commented, examining first an ad, then a postcard, then a sticker, each showcasing in some way a fictional story. “Fiction is sort of my specialty,” I said. She replied, �...

Kadeem France is really good at his job. While performing with Loathe, his guttural screams and concussive growls reach into the human psyche to awaken something from our deep evolutionary past, something primal and aggressive. That voice, when combined with his commanding stage presence, turns France into a brooding, kinetic ringmaster for our inner beasts. But in conversation, a very different Kadeem France emerges: easygoing, self-effacing, even downright cheerful. “When people speak to m...

Storytelling in video games comes in many forms, whether its in-game dialogue, environmental details, or even info dumps of lore via found documents and audio logs. Cinematic cutscenes have been a firm staple of delivering story beats and important plot moments, but some games writers are keen to find alternatives. One such writer is Lucas Laredo, narrative designer on Weird West -- an action RPG with qualities of an immersive sim, set in a Wild West frontier that borders on dark fantasy. Thoug...

CinemaBlend Its the little indie that could. In 2016, writer/director Barry Jenkins sophomore feature, Moonlight, proved to be an incredible success, grossing over $65 million from its $4 million (or less) budget and earning a wealth of acclaim. Widely considered one of the best films of the early 21st century, this coming-of-age drama, based on Tarell Alvin McCraneys unpublished semi-autobiographical play, In Moonlight Black Men Look Blue, became a powerful examination of race, sexuality, an...

Tim O Briens Research Essay Tim O Briens Research Essay 904 Words4 Pages Tim O’Brien is known for sharing his life stories with the world. In many of his stories and memoirs he goes into detail about his experiences in the Vietnam War. As quoted from Tim O’Brien, “My passion[s] as a human being and as a writer intersect in Vietnam, not in the physical stuff but in the issues of Vietnam -- of courage, rectitude, enlightenment, holiness, trying to do the right thing in the worldâ�...