Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel of the same name, the limited mini series Daisy Jones and the Six premiered on Amazon Prime Video in March. The show and book mostly have the same plot: the rise and fall of a 1970s rock band, loosely based on Fleetwood Mac. Like the book, the TV show is formatted as a documentary — as the characters are interviewed, they reminisce on their time in the band. As with most book-to-screen adaptations, I personally preferred the book over the show. The band first started as “The Dunne Brothers,” created by Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin) and his brother Graham (Will Harrison) with a group of friends in high school out of their garage.
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Refugeography: A Reading With Slam Poet Bao Phi
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Oct. 13, at 12:20 p.m. — The English lounge was packed with people sitting under a shroud of excited silence. They were all there for the Refugeography, Bao Phi’s introductory event to the Cornell community. Bao Phi, a Visiting Critic in the Department of Literatures in English for this academic year, has won the Minnesota Grand Slam twice, made it to the finals for the National Poetry Slam and has written three heavily awarded children’s books. After Bao Phi was introduced on stage, he confessed that this event would be his first time performing in-person since March 2020 — no one would have been able to realize.
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‘The People We Keep’ and Discovering Yourself in Ithaca
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In the end, that was what struck me most about this novel — “The People We Keep” explores the vulnerability of opening up, whether through your art or your relationships with others, and it uses a familiar location to do so.
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‘The Goblin Emperor’ Sequel Approaches the Setting from Beneath
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If you enjoy rich, detailed worldbuilding and poignant exploration of social issues through speculative fiction, then this series is for you.
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Curating a Summer Reading List
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If you, like me, are looking forward to some reading this summer, let’s embark on this ill-fated journey together. Will we achieve our reading goals? Almost certainly not. Will we still enjoy the act of resistance that is leisure in a society that values only productivity? We must — or perish.
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‘In the Lateness of the World’: Witness to a Denouement
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“In the Lateness of the World” is Forché’s most recent book, her first new collection of poetry in seventeen years. In it, she writes on subjects ranging from the global to the personal — from war-scarred history to a visitation to a lighthouse, from dawn over Paros to the death of a friend.
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‘A Desolation Called Peace’: Language and Personhood in a Space-Opera Sequel
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If you’re interested in high-tech space battles, themes of culture and identity, LGBTQ+ romance or elaboration on worldbuilding from the previous book — then this book might be for you!
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LU | Breathing Room: Poetry Edition
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In a week where my words would inevitably have failed me, I’ve compiled a brief list of poetry recommendations instead.
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YANDAVA|What Books Will Look Like in the Future
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It remains to be seen whether such forms of storytelling will catch on and eventually turn the physical, printed book into what the medieval codex is today.
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This Game Didn’t Need Multiplayer: ‘Ready Player Two’ Book Review
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Building off the success of the first bestselling novel, which also became a movie directed by Steven Spielberg, Ready Player Two delivers the same — perhaps overly so — action-packed, deep dive into eighties pop culture as the original.
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A Face-to-Face With Student Author of ‘My Tech-Wise Life’
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It’s not every day that you get to sit down with a Cornell student who has just written a generation-defying piece of work.