Elizabeth Twist

Back in grad school, we used to play a game called "What should you have read by now but haven't?" Because we were people whos...

...and Sixteenth Century Journal , and especially you, Proceedings of the Modern Language Association . I won't miss you at all. I'...

Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn...

One of the worst parts of being a grad student in English literature was slowly coming to look upon the act of reading as a chore. When you ...

In the original Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, I always loved the scene set in the amazing garden-o-candy. No, not because of ...

Yesterday I was working on a scene in which a character has to tell another character some bad news. The exchange went something like this: ...

Dave and I went to see Kick-Ass tonight. (In a word: amazing! Run and see it now! Go!) One of the trailers was for The Expendables , of whi...