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"It's Elementary" is a romance mystery thriller by Elise Bryant.

Culture Pick: Elise Bryant’s newest novel tackles important topics but lacks the mystery it advertises

Sarah Chase, Contributing Writer July 31, 2024

Living with her dad, working a job she does not enjoy and raising her 7-year-old daughter with little help, Mavis Miller finds herself standing outside her daughter’s majority-white school being asked...

For the love of words: UA English Department sees decrease in majors

For the love of words: UA English Department sees decrease in majors

Becca Murdoch September 10, 2015

In the aged, yellowed walkways of Morgan Hall, up the seemingly endless flights of stairs, English majors dig into novels with an ease and confidence that outside of Morgan is often silenced by adverse...

Poetry book focused on Kanye West's humanity

Poetry book focused on Kanye West's humanity

Tori Linville April 21, 2015

When Kanye West is mentioned, people know where they stand. Love him or hate him, West is a force to be reckoned with. As someone who was never swayed to love or hate the man who stole Taylor Swift’s...

Scott McWaters acts as 'utility player' in English department

Scott McWaters acts as 'utility player' in English department

Mackenzie Ross March 31, 2015

Growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Scott McWaters said he never thought he would live in the South. But his passion for basketball changed everything.McWaters, now an instructor in the English department...

Krakauer return to non-fiction scene with 'Missoula'

Krakauer return to non-fiction scene with 'Missoula'

Reed OMara February 18, 2015

It’s been 12 years since Jon Krakauer graced his readers with a new book, and with an Instagram handle called 
@KrakauerNotWriting, readers expected the mountain-climbing nonfiction writer to be done...

Book satirically explores lives of recent college graduates

Book satirically explores lives of recent college graduates

Reed OMara February 11, 2015

While satire was a genre commonplace in pre-revolutionary France, it’s less so nowadays – or so one would think. The recently released “A Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year...

Rereading books worthy venture

Rereading books worthy venture

Tori Linville February 4, 2015

Odds are, if someone has a favorite movie, they have watched and rewatched it so many times that they can recite the film line for line. The obsessive scrutiny doesn’t translate to a favorite book for...

Harper Lee to release 2nd book

Francie Johnson February 3, 2015

Author Harper Lee's name is instantly recognizable due to her one iconic novel: "To Kill a Mockingbird." In the 50-plus years since the book's 1960 publication, Lee has never had another novel published...

Don't fear literature class workload

Reed OMara November 9, 2014

Literature courses: Whether required for your major or for an elective, you’re likely to run into one, and if you are a procrastinator, you’re likely to hate one – even if you like reading. The first...

Bargains for Books to benefit, support youth literacy programs

Margaret Wilbourne April 17, 2014

The Literacy Council of West Alabama reports that one in four Alabama residents are functionally illiterate. Leadership Tuscaloosa is hoping to change that statistic by hosting Bargains for Books, a garage...

Slash Pine festival fosters writing

Kelcey Sexton April 10, 2014

Slash Pine Press will host its 2014 Slash Pine Poetry Festival outdoors, in bars and beyond this weekend. Readings featuring more than two dozen poets will take place at venues ranging from the Gorgas...

Rick Moody, Valerie Miner to speak at lecture

Drew Pendleton April 10, 2014

Students, professors and members of the Tuscaloosa community alike will have the opportunity to attend a live reading by two highly acclaimed authors at the Jemison-Van de Graaff Mansion in downtown Tuscaloosa...