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Evan and Gordon Talk: The Walking Dead
GORDON: Ladies and gentlemen devoted readers and people who found our blog by googling “dokata fanning playboy.” We’re were to have a frank and open discussion about “The Walking Dead,” both the...
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Evan and Gordon Talk: New Lit. Genre
GORDON: Ladies, gentlemen, voices I hear in my head during the dark, long hours of the night, we’re going to deviate from our past record of discussing television to talk about creating a new literary...
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Evan and Gordon Talk: Naps [And Also the Hours in a Day]
GORDON: Ladies and gentlemen, because we are men of our word, today’s Evan and Gordon discussion will be based off a suggestion left by you, the readers. Specifically, Joe Chinn, who asked us to talk...
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Intelligence and Intellectual Property
As luck would have it, just as I was perusing the AV Club’s various articles on the US networks’ fall programming, regular CWR reader/my friend Marilyn brought a certain issue to my attention. This...
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What Happened to Reading?
Now I know that there’s a certain degree of irony attached to this post. Just now you read my question on why people don’t read anymore. I’m not really talking about reading in the the sense of...
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Fame Day: American Literary Piracy
As I’ve already mentioned in a previous post, I’m back in school, so I feel like it’s my duty to share some awesome learning with you. After the piracy debate broke out between Evan and Gordon a little...
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Culture War Correspondence: Censorship
GORDON: Welcome readers to another exciting installment of [redacted], where we’ll be discussing [censored] and the [undisclosed] surrounding it. (The topic for today is censorship, for anyone baffled...
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Write Off, Write On
I’ve read all four Twilight books. Would have checked out Midnight Sun, a retelling of the first novel from Edward’s perspective, but a copy was leaked online and Meyers never ended up releasing it....
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Not A Review Of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
The book in question, the eighth by Gabrielle Zevin, an author more known for her YA [young adult] fare, is one that I have altogether too many thoughts about. I’m choosing not to dub this post a...
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Avengers: Age of Ultron Trailer Released, Comics Lover Swears He Will Watch...
As anyone who has been on the internet since Wednesday night probably knows, the Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer has been released online. As a person who has professed his enthusiasm for comic books...
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I’m Sorry, but Keira Knightley’s Topless Photo Does Not Count as a Win in the...
consider myself a somewhat fit person. I try to do yoga at least once a week. I bike to school. I force-feed myself smoothies (I’ve almost convinced myself that I like them). I also think I’m a fairly...
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Not Strictly Literary: 6 Unexpected Subjects You Learn About in English
I’m currently in the last year of my English undergraduate degree. Well, kinda. I will probably have to do an extra semester to finish off my credits completely, but after next semester I will have...
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The 2014 Evan Yeong Literary Awards
My mom taught me how to read when I was 4-years-old, which WebMD, a reliable source if there ever was one, says is about two years younger than average. According to Iowa Tests [American standardized...
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3 Things About Valentine’s Day That Are Less Fun to Criticize Than 50 Shades...
My Facebook feed has been peppered with articles about 50 Shades of Grey in the weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day, and the discussion doesn’t seem to be stopping any time soon. I certainly do agree...
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Is It Time To Stop Reading Shakespeare?
I never really liked Shakespeare. Never hated the guy, mind you- downright enjoyed a few of his plays (The Tempest, Coriolanus, Hamlet). Still, I never really could bring myself to relish the bard’s...
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The 2015 Evan Yeong Literary Awards
You can read a better introduction at the beginning of last year’s awards, but I can quickly fill in for any new readers out there that I began reading at a fairly young age and continued on to study...
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The 2017 Evan Yeong Literary Awards
As laid out in the first-ever Evan Yeong Literary Awards, the purpose of these blog posts has been to provide a retrospective of the books read in the past year. Typically these have been written and...
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Who Did It Better? Coming Out with J.K. Rowling and Overwatch Lead Writer...
It’s the Year of Our Lord 2019 and storytelling is still important. In some cases the stories are the same, like the age-old tale of good triumphing over evil, but they’re being delivered in...
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Why Does the Billionaire Romance Hero (Still) Exist?
No one needs a billion dollars, no one person needs that much money, starts the viral TikTok song by Chaz Cardigan. It’s a fairly straightforward thesis, and even though the original video has since...
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