To some extent, getting people riled up is the goal of political writing. Opinions and discussions should be exciting, forceful, and most of all, persuasive. You want…
Category: New Media
Explorations of how media other than writing, especially new evolving media, overlap with and inform writing itself.
How important is knowledge of popular culture to the contemporary writer? Is popular culture knowledge something we should actively pursue, or something we accumulate without effort as…
The Beating Art, a new show on Radio DePaul, launched its debut this past Monday, Sep. 27 at 9pm by featuring two DePaul spoken word talents. The…
The Chicago Public Library (CPL) has offered e-books in the EPUB format for a while now, but Kindle owners haven’t been able to borrow digitally until very…
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To Tag, or Not to Tag
There has been a great evolution in my mind concerning the concept of graffiti. When young, I associated it with a disrespectful ugliness that surfaced on trips…
Some have appropriated unto the process of writing a somewhat romantic picture. We imagine our favorite writers hunched over desks, grumbling to themselves through sips of whiskey…
Last week, Jay-Z and Kanye West dropped their highly anticipated joint album, Watch the Throne. Like any other pop culture event, the immense buildup to the release…
“Talking and eloquence are not the same,” Ben Jonson once observed. “To speak, and to speak well, are two things.” In his new book, Microstyle, Christopher Johnson,…
Hot Topics in Writing, the UCWbL’s podcast, has released the second installment of a three part series about resources for writers in Chicago! In our last episode,…
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This Is Your Brain Online
“When people expect to have future access to information, they have lower rates of recall of the information itself and enhanced recall instead for where to access…