Genre: 9th

JASON QIN

JASON IS READING LORD GRIZZLY BY FREDERICK MANFRED. This novel, written in 1954, is the authoritative creative nonfiction masterpiece by Manfred, far far superior to the more recent The Revenant, which was made into a Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle of the same name. In Manfred’s work, buffeted by many long hours exploring the countryside where Hugh Read more…

JASON QIN

Chaim Potok’s The Chosen throws the reader into a bildungsroman, a coming of age story, of two Jews, Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter, during the tail-end of World War Two and its aftermath as the horrors of the Holocaust are unveiled to the public, and movements like Zionism rise to debate the idea of the Read more…

ANNA QIN

Intersecting Visual Art and the Art of the Setting Eudora Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001), daughter of Christian Welty and Chestina Welty, was a short story writer and photographer, born in Jackson, Mississippi. As seen from her memoir, One Writer’s Beginnings, she grew up in a supporting and loving family which included Read more…

MICHAEL LIN

The McCormicks Past Palm Street, an already isolated road, the McCormick house stood alone. It was a huge abode, built with the highest quality materials and led to by a gargantuan driveway with iron gates. The McCormicks lived in Stowe, a small town in Vermont. Palm Street was a road originally used to get around Read more…

MICHAEL LIN

Magic through a Professor’s eyes John Bellairs (1938-1991) was a brilliant author of juvenile and adult literature who wrote many novels and series and parodies over the course of his shortened life. Bellairs created three series: the Anthony Monday series, which contained 4 books, the Lewis Barnavelt series, and the Johnny Dixon series, both of Read more…