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The Magicians is the anti-Harry Potter

The Magicians is the anti-Harry Potter

Isabela Morales September 6, 2011

In this bleak and empty wasteland of the post-Harry Potter world we live in, it’s inevitable that any book about twenty-somethings at a school for magic will come under the closest scrutiny. That would...

Alabama Press hosts a two-day book sale downtown

Alexandra Ellsworth August 25, 2011

  The University of Alabama Press has finally caved to community demands and reinstated the summer book sale. This Friday and Saturday, across from the Amtrak Station on Greensboro, book lovers can find...

Books offer solace and escape

Books offer solace and escape

Stephanie Brumfield July 27, 2011

“The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” Photo Credit: Random House Caption: Part romance, part comedy and part history lesson, “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,”...

One throne to rule them all

One throne to rule them all

Isabela Morales July 20, 2011

This month, TIME magazine christened novelist George R. R. Martin, author of the epic fantasy series “A Song of Ice and Fire,” the “American Tolkien for a jaded age.” Possibly, it’s the two Rs...

Science fiction meets Disney in author’s first book

Isabela Morales June 28, 2011

As it turns out, Ayn Rand isn’t the only libertarian-ish science fiction writer I can name (and on that note, it’s Ayn as in “fine,” not Ann as in “can.”) If you’ve visited Gorgas lately,...

Reading for the end of days

Isabela Morales June 14, 2011

There’s nothing fun about the end of the world. When I wasn’t teleported up to the pearly gates on May 21, I nearly freaked out realizing that I did, after all, need to study for my GRE on the 27th....

Ayn Rand wrote science fiction?

Isabela Morales June 7, 2011

Ayn Rand’s name was everywhere a couple years ago, when Tea Partiers started brandishing “Who is John Galt?” signs to protest increasing government intervention in the economy (and various other...

Slash Pine hosts informal bike hike

Stephanie Brumfield April 21, 2011

As the semester is coming to an end for students, it is also coming to an end for the intern-run Slash Pine Press, which will host its final event of the semester on Saturday morning. Just a few weekends...

Playboy casts for ‘Girls of the SEC’

Kelsey Stein April 6, 2011

Representatives from 'Playboy' magazine will host a casting call in Tuscaloosa this weekend for its Girls of the SEC pictorial to be featured in the magazine's October 2011 issue. “I know it's one of...

Festval showcases local, guest writers

Festval showcases local, guest writers

Lauren Ferguson April 3, 2011

Many writers, students and faculty came out to support the third annual Slash Pine Writers Festival that spanned four days of readings at different venues in Tuscaloosa. Saturday featured four reading...

DewPoint to debut this Monday

Hannah Marcum March 31, 2011

English honor society Sigma Tau Delta is presenting the inaugural issue of their literary journal, DewPoint, at a release party Monday night. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. on Woods quad, and will feature...

Slash Pine Festival features more than 60 writers

Lauren Ferguson March 30, 2011

A crowd of writers will spend the weekend in Tuscaloosa for the 3rd annual Slash Pine Writers Festival. Today through Saturday, writers from across the United States, as well as the UA and Tuscaloosa community,...