Monthly Archive: June 2013

10 Books of Summer: The Great Gatsby- Both Within and Without 8

10 Books of Summer: The Great Gatsby- Both Within and Without

“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.” When I first read The Great Gatsby a few years ago, I thought that Fitzgerald had somehow failed with his narration technique. I had just read...

Featured Poem 6/24 – “Filicudi” 0

Featured Poem 6/24 – “Filicudi”

Filicudi by Eliza Griswold   You have a beautiful mouth, Luigi, the man-boy says. The rubber raft has floated far from shore. The choice is this: medusa sea, a boil of   jellied lashes, or...

10 Books of Summer: The Great Gatsby- The Mystery of Jay Gatsby 1

10 Books of Summer: The Great Gatsby- The Mystery of Jay Gatsby

“One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.” Jay Gatsby. The man who came from nowhere. The man who stands...

Have You Thought About This? : Reality 2

Have You Thought About This? : Reality

You may have had that moment. You hand a piece over to a friend or a reviewer and they come back to you saying, “I don’t believe that character would ever do that” or...

10 Books of Summer: The Great Gatsby- The Roaring Twenties 6

10 Books of Summer: The Great Gatsby- The Roaring Twenties

Hi everyone! welcome to our First Book of Summer, The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald. I am incredibly excited to be running discussions on this book, and today’s topic I especially enjoy: the...

Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: Murder on the Mainline 3

Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: Murder on the Mainline

Welcome to Bad Cover Art…Redesigned! Where I bring you the most horrible of all cover art I can find on the world wide web and try to come up with an alternative (that I...

Featured Club: Artist Arena 0

Featured Club: Artist Arena

Storytelling isn’t limited to just words spoken or put on a page. Images also tell stories, and whether you’re creating a visual novel, sequential art, or a single image, pictures are precious. Unfortunately, since...

10 Books of Summer 2013-  Wake Up Call for The Great Gatsby 1

10 Books of Summer 2013- Wake Up Call for The Great Gatsby

“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.” -The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald