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We asked members of the K-State English community two really important summer questions: 1. What's a beach read really? 2. What should people read on the beach this summer — or you know, it's Kansas, so while locked inside with air conditioning? 1. I think we’re meant to think of beach reads like airport … Continue reading Beach Read Recommendations
Another Super Bowl has come and gone, and we're pretty sure the "Dirty Dancing" ad won? We're just kidding, Eagles fans! We know all about the actual game. Despite those "sportsball" jokes you see spinning around some English departments, the words of literature and the world of sports come together more often than you think. In fact, … Continue reading Forget the Super Bowl: Here are Some Super Writers
Some people read from the back of the room. Most, from the front. A few just stood where they were sitting. Some used the microphone; some said, “Can everyone hear me without the mic?” (We could, always.) People read from books, from print-outs, from phones. In another context, all these particulars might not have mattered. … Continue reading Today We Fight
Here at the Kansas State English Department — Fine Purveyor of Literary Listicles for All of Your Holiday Needs — we're thankful for the holiday break next week, for our families, for our students, for our colleagues, for our friends, for those who fight for the rights of others, and for books — don't forget … Continue reading Five Books to Help You Give Thanks
Professors Lisa Tatonetti (left) and Tanya González (right) turn to literature — by writers such as Frederick Douglass, Gloria Anzaldúato, and Mohsin Hamid — to help fight against bigotry. Trying to write anything about diversity in Manhattan, Kansas, at the current political moment seems impossible. Last week, there were incidents of homophobic chalking and reports across our community of … Continue reading Pages of Resistance
Originally published November 4, 2016. Here at the Kansas State University English Department, the world’s foremost purveyor of literature listicles, we’ve been thinking a lot about the 2016 election. Some of us have even been weeping about it, but that hasn’t stopped us from compiling — for your edification and maybe even enjoyment — the … Continue reading Five Works to Help You Survive the 2016 Election
Originally published October 30, 2016. It’s that time of year again — the time when the dead raise the living, when unremembered trauma traps a ghost, when even the timid John Pig invites a witch and her friends in for a party, when children battle malevolent ghosts in a parallel London, and, of course, when … Continue reading 14 Halloween Children’s Books to Set Your Pumpkins on Edge
