Creative Writing | Marginalia

Year in review

Being the internet-obsessed media consumer I am, when I started seeing people posting their “year in review” on Facebo..

Best of Bowie

AKA The True Lives of Thesis Warriors

Okay, so I’m not really going to write an entire post on the legendary Que..

Photo Credit: http://www.qbuzz.qnet.net/blog/2015/01/16/game-changer-2015-logo-revealed/

This semester, my Critical Reading and Writin..

Delicious Fall

Everything about this fall feels different than the past two I’ve experienced in Chicago. I’m no longer trying to figur..

Tony Trigilio, David Fairbanks (me), John Gallaher, and Courtney Zellers (photo courtesy of Courtney Zellers)

I’m going to let you in ..

I’m not the only one who was overwhelmed with college applications, right?

Is it just me or does October just seem like it’s the month..

Riding Up the World’s Longest Escalator

Like most creative fields, writing can get competitive. Inside the writing community people ma..

The Cheshire Cat – John Tenniel

‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked.
‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat: ..

Courtesy of confessionsofasomedaysomebody.wordpress.com. I can admit that this is my face during some first reads.

Okay, let’s be hon..

Commuter Life

As I mentioned in a prior post, I’ve begun a new endeavor: working as an intern with 826CHI. After spending two years wo..