The Aesthetics of Good and Evil in David Copperfield
On Saturday, I purchased Charles Dickens' classic novel David Copperfield and couldn't put it down all weekend. Dickens was a childhood favorite of mine, and Great Expectations was one of the most impactful books to my young consciousness. After college, though, I...How to Write About God and Other Big Ideas
I recently read an article about what people talk about when they’re dying. A hospice chaplain named Kerry Egan wrote the article. Every day she holds hands and watches people die. She listens to their last thoughts about life.
How To Use Allusion Like Taylor Swift
Last week, I read an article about Taylor Swift, whom I knew nothing about except that she apparently wears Converse, sits on the bleachers, and doesn’t wear short skirts.
The article mentioned that Taylor will often write songs about her celebrity ex-boyfriends, like that guy who always takes his shirt off in the Twilight movies, and one of those kids in that Disney channel band—Jonah-something-or-other—and the tool-of-all-tools, John Mayer (he can play a mean guitar, though). Apparently, she puts secret codes into her songs to give hints to her fans about the identity of the celeb she’s singing about, like capitalizing letters in her liner notes that spell out their first name.
