books

• March 4, 2025

  Spring 25 Visiting Writers Series

  Mark your calendars for some readings in our Visiting Writers Series! We have a robust schedule of visiting writers this semester and will be updating this post! Join us for our first reading in our spring Visiting Writers Series! Professor Xochiquetzal Candelaria will host poet Joseph Lease for an online reading! Wednesday, March 5, 2025,…
• November 14, 2013

  The Ambivalent Protaganist

  by Casey Baker Recently, Huffington Post published an article (link:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/claire-fallon/great-male-protagonists-w_b_4044741.html) naming a few male protagonists from famous novels that no one would really wish to befriend if they existed in the real world. While the piece is an interesting, rather pro-feminist examination of generally brutish male characters, it leaves out an entire gender and examination therein.…
• October 21, 2013

  “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” ― Oscar Wilde
• September 29, 2013

  “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” ― Stephen King
• September 26, 2013

  Post-Apocalyptic Top 3

  Post-Apocalyptic is a big genre right now, especially in current television shows and movies.  From zombie outbreaks to alien invasions, post-nuclear attacks to worldwide technological crashes, and even natural disasters that destroy modern civilization – you have access to your favorite end-of-the-world scenario in many forms. However, when recommending post-apocalyptic as a genre, what are…
• September 25, 2013

  “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
• September 25, 2013

  “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou
• September 19, 2013

  Dystopian Top 3

  Hello Forum Magazine readers!  Today we’re talking about Dystopian art and stories, or, more specifically, your favorites within the Dystopian genre.  Whether we love, hate, or carry a lukewarm temperament toward it, we must admit that Dystopian art is definitely popular, right now.  We can argue the reasons for or merits of this amongst ourselves…