Both Gonzophiles and hip-hop heads alike will agree that renowned rapper, J. Cole has been stepping in a new direction, away from traditional themes and subject matter. His lyrics already he… Read More

There’s a kingdom lying, uninhabited just beneath us. While we all crowd onto less than 60 million square miles of dry land, acres upon acres of certain promise spread out before our e… Read More

Few publications bring literature to the forefront quite like Electric Literature. Before scrolling away, this isn’t a plug for the website. I am an actual fan and have been for a whil… Read More

Who steals a book? Why not shoplift a couple of Wal-mart donuts or booze, instead? Books are stolen primarily due to their content. People generally risk prosecution for books they actually… Read More

You see them everywhere in supermarkets and grocery stores. Easily forgettable books written by easily forgettable authors ranging from cheesy romance novellas to pseudo-sci-fi erotica… Read More

The written word is, perhaps, history’s most efficient vessel for delivering emotion and accounts of human strife. With literature at the crossroads of empathy and wisdom, The Native A… Read More

‘Member when movie adaptations didn’t seem horrible? No? Me either. Ready Player One definitely takes the cake. This is one of the most half-assed efforts to exploit nostalgia th… Read More

There are two kinds of novels! Good ones and bad ones? Well, yes. But the novels I’m talking about this week are those that flit from character to character rather than mostly focus on… Read More

Trains have been a memorable part of various novels — maybe even more so than planes, buses, and other forms of mass transit (which, for churchgoers, can include any way you travel to… Read More

Many of us know about literature’s memorable first lines (in A Tale of Two Cities, Pride and Prejudice, Moby-Dick, Jane Eyre, etc.) and even famous last lines in no… Read More

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer , with its accompanying film and phenomenal soundtrack, often inspires wanderlust, especially in young men like Christopher McCandless, the book’s su… Read More

Last week I was reading Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea, and my brain was queasy with mixed feelings. The novel is intellectual, philosophical, existential — clearly, a great mind… Read More

Franz Kafka frequently revisits absurdism while questioning life in the 20th century. What gives his body of a work a cynical tinge is a lack of answers to the questions Kafka rightfully rai… Read More

In prison, reading isn’t only a source of escapism. It’s also a means of improvement and ease in transitioning back into the free world. According to studies of both federal and… Read More

Louisville, KY is stippled with curio shops and thrift stores. Despite more than a handful, not every secondhand store in Louisville is full of old Derby Day merchandise.&nbsp&hell…Read More

In case you’be been living under a rock since 2013, Rick and Morty is [Adult Swim]’s animated, sci-fi riff on Back to The Future’s Doc and Mar… Read More

This week, I went to a local poetry slam. Although it was freezing outside, the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, in downtown Louisville, KY radiated warmth. I witnessed somet… Read More

Content written for a mill is often shallow click-bait for new or failing websites. While it isn’t typically beneficial long-term, and can actually hinder writers, writing for content… Read More

Recently, The Atlantic published one of Kurt Vonnegut’s early short stories, along with an animated adaptation, as seen below. Like every piece of work, especially that of Vonnegut, it… Read More