The history of books is hard to explore sometimes, as a book lover. I think the reason is wrapped around what Michael Sims is writing about in “Remembering a Golden Age of Reading.” For some, books are more than just pages and glue. They are tied inherently to our memories and childhoods. They transcend their [...]

The biggest thing I’ve learned throughout the Journalism program at SHU was time and stress management. My work on the paper and other extracurricular completely overwhelmed me for a good deal of my college career. I got my work done, but I was occasionally a basket case. Even though I’ve recently taken on more responsibility, I have [...]

The best bookstore experience I’ve ever had was my visit to the Harvard Book Store, an independent book store across the street from Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The rooms full of books and library ladders with a basement full of used books, was beautiful. I would happily live there. I also truly love Barnes and Noble. [...]

“Among Bernays’s more intriguing strategies to “increase the market for good books” was to have his institute sponsor a contest in the spring of 1931 ‘to look for a pejorative word for the book borrower, the wretch who raised hell with book sales and deprived authors of earned royalties.’” Ted Striphas. The Late Age of Print: [...]

  So, as you can see, my handwriting is not the best. I was forces to practice repetitively in elementary school, but I never really loved it like this kid. I’m not sure that his opinion “if you don’t have good handwriting, you won’t be able to accomplish tasks you need to do in your life.”  Good [...]

Clearly the writer has a purpose in writing… right? I mean, without the writer how would we end up with works at all? Writers do not sit down without purpose and put pen to paper. They have motivations, inspirations and goals for the words they write and the creations they craft. The class Media and [...]