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-18 posts tagged "Books"
Hanna Kennedy | Tuesday, November 5, 2019
The Brain Lair. It’s an anagram for librarian and a fitting name for Kathy Burnette’s bookstore, located just five minutes from campus. Before opening Brain Lair Books, Burnette held positions as a librarian in local elementary and middle schools for almost 20 years. “I’ve always wanted to open a bookstore,” Burnette said. “I visited some
Charlie Kenney | Thursday, September 13, 2018
This past June, just weeks after his death, I read Anthony Bourdain’s breakthrough book from 2000, “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.” The manner in which I did so, admittedly, is not the most respectable way that I could have gone about it. The way I dove into Bourdain’s book is the same way
Sara Schlecht | Thursday, November 16, 2017
Give the gift of literacy to someone you know today, and the gift will also be shared with others. That is the aim of the ninth annual Usborne Book Fair which will be held Thursday and Friday in the atrium of the Student Center at Saint Mary’s. This fair is held to assist The Learning
Kathryn Marshall | Monday, November 21, 2016
The Saint Mary’s Faculty Colloquium Series continued Friday with presentations by Dawn Farmer, visiting assistant professor of music, and Sarah Noonan, visiting assistant professor of English. Farmer provided insight into the shifting themes and sub-strands associated with the terms “urban,” “inner city,” “at risk,” “race” and “diversity” from 1991 to 2010 in her talk “Discursive Trends
Mike Donovan | Friday, November 18, 2016
Cultural movements hit the youth psyche like violent ocean swells. They crash furiously onto populated shores, submerging everybody and everything in their path. Then, after a few moments, they recede back into the ocean as rapidly as they came. Before long, another wave hits, and the process begins again. In the midst of the voracious
Megan Valley | Monday, October 10, 2016
This fiscal year, the total materials acquisition budget for Hesburgh Library is $12.3 million. While this number fluctuates year to year depending on endowments, which currently account for 53 percent of that budget, it is still enough to allow the library to grow. “Over the year, we add around 50,000 [print books] to the collection,
R.J. Stempak | Monday, April 11, 2016
The abundance of unfunny comedies, repetitive action blockbusters and unoriginal sequels coming out of Hollywood in the past decade has led many people to disregard the movie as a shallow form of entertainment or simply an excuse to not read a book. I have watched about 25 films since the beginning of the school year.
Martha Reilly | Monday, April 13, 2015
Unless you clumsily drop the entire box set of “Harry Potter” on your foot, you won’t suffer too many injuries from books — maybe a paper cut here and there from turning the pages too excitedly. Compare that with the lasting emotional pain onset by heartbreak, and you will see that literature clearly does less
Erin Thomassen | Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Read slowly. A book is a treat. Would I wolf down an ice cream cone? Probably — I like ice cream. Would I enjoy it more if I ate it one lick at a time, truly tasting the cold, sugary cream before I swallowed it? Yes. When normal people eat ice cream, they get a
Allie Tollaksen | Monday, February 2, 2015
We are inundated with films adapted from books, from bestsellers like “Gone Girl” and “50 Shades of Grey” to the more literary end of the spectrum with new releases of Philip Roth adaptations and P.T. Anderson’s wild take on Thomas Pynchon’s “Inherent Vice.” Perhaps less noticeably, literature leaks into other kinds of media, sometimes unbeknownst