Category: Reflections

Musings on “Middle School” Media: Berkeley’s Young Adult Literature Decal

Musings on “Middle School” Media: Berkeley’s Young Adult Literature Decal   by Andrea Aquino   We read Milton’s Paradise Lost, we read Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, we read Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, we read Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice — and the list only goes on. We read countless works, from novels to poetry to drama, as part of...

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Habitually Holloway: In Praise of Poetry

Habitually Holloway: In Praise of Poetry by: Giovanna Lomanto   Even before the event, the room buzzed with anticipation as the awaiting audience waited eagerly for the introductions to begin. The reading as a phenomenon was social, especially in the front end of the night; in the Maude Fife, a flush of chatter greeted me from the far side of...

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