Tagged - books

Dos and don’ts of befriending your neighborhood performative male

To make sure the man you have identified is indeed a performative male, make sure to look for the three Ls: Look-at-me energy, Lattes, and Loafers.  Read More

Book Club reviews: Parable of the Sower

Lauren and the two surviving members of their neighborhood trust a group of travellers they meet relatively readily and never really face consequences. Read More

Audiobooks are books and we should say so

Engage with books however you want. Don’t we have better uses for our time than to pick apart how other people take in information? Read More

Plutzik reading series returns hosting Gabriel Bump

Reading from his forthcoming novel, Bump gave voice to a man pondering his upbringing and parental figures.  Read More

Laura van den Berg comes to the University of Rochester as part of the Plutzik Reading Series

On Nov. 14, critically acclaimed fiction author Laura van den Berg came to UR as part of the Plutzik Reading Series. Read More

Book Club Reviews: Lemme Babble about Babel

“Babel” is the third member-nominated book that we have elected to read together this semester. Read More

Plutzik Reading Series brings in Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Carl Phillips

Phillips is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who has written 17 books, the most recent of which is entitled Scattered Snow, to the North. Read More


Little Cookbook Library opens in Douglass Dining Center

From books like Snoop Dogg’s “From Crook to Cook” to “The Joy of Japanese Cooking,” this library in Douglass Dining Hall has it all. Read More

BookTok is turning the publishing industry into fast fashion

Are publishers and authors publishing books too quickly to capitalize on hype, and does this hurt the quality of their writing? Read More