Inspiration comes in many forms. Sometimes it’s a painting, a sentence or a day’s right feelings. But for Monique Fields, it’s something much more personal. Fields, a professor of journalism at the University, recently returned from New York, where she attended a conference hosted by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, a nonprofit [...]
There’s nothing like child gladiators to up those network television ratings, am I right? That’s how it works in Panem, anyway – the totalitarian, post-nuclear holocaust North American government that takes reality TV just a little too far in Suzanne Collins’ wildly popular novel “The Hunger Games.” If you haven’t heard of “The Hunger Games” [...]
Alabama’s chapter of Pi Beta Phi sorority has partnered with Holt Elementary School to implement the six-week Champions are Readers (CAR) program, designed to help students enhance their reading levels. Pi Beta Phi started the CAR program at Holt three years ago as part of its national philanthropy campaign for literacy. Members of the sorority [...]
Book lovers would be hard-pressed to find anything more perennially popular with science fiction/fantasy authors than dystopian governments doing horrible things to young children. Most recently, that trope has been in play in Suzanne Collins’s “The Hunger Games” trilogy. In “The Hunger Games,” a teenage girl is thrown into an arena with 23 other “tributes” [...]
Put away your half-started manuscripts and tragic hopes, creative writing minors. In an economy like ours, your chances of publication are bleak – unless, that is, you have unlimited access to a mind-enhancing “smart pill” called MDT-48. That’s the premise of Alan Glynn’s novel “Limitless,” anyway (originally published as “The Dark Fields” in 2001). You [...]
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