Every week, Lilian Min muses on reality + sci-fi/fantasy fiction narrative and fantastical world building in her column “Chasing the Unicorn.” If you haven't been on the Internet for a couple of, I don't know, years, then maybe you won't care that the saga of Walter White, aka the protagonist of the critically acclaimed, culturally pervasive "Breaking Bad," is donning his … [Read more...] about Chasing the Unicorn: Grey Matters
Chasing the Unicorn: We’ll Go To Very Distant Lands
Every week, Lilian Min muses on reality + sci-fi/fantasy fiction narrative and fantastical world building in her column "Chasing the Unicorn." Recently in class, we were discussing an unusual phenomena: the explosion of tweets from Japan during a television screening of animation maestro Hayao Miyazaki's "Castle in the Sky." To which one person in my class actually voiced … [Read more...] about Chasing the Unicorn: We’ll Go To Very Distant Lands
Eric Weintraub
Eric Weintraub is an avid writer whose interest in immigration sparked a summer-long research project on the issue. He now regularly blogs about undocumented immigration along the Arizona and California/Mexico borders. http://undocumentedarizona.com … [Read more...] about Eric Weintraub
Jesse Gallegos
Jesse is a Physics student in USC’s Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Originally he started his blog, Etiquette, to study manners and behaviors in different societies, however, after a few weeks of blogging he realized that the task was too broad and narrowed his focus to books and politics. To this day the name of the blog remains the same. … [Read more...] about Jesse Gallegos
Incest and Innocence
A primary facet of the American literacy consciousness is the ideal of American innocence and the tragic consequences if that innocence is lost. Yet many American authors remain deeply troubled by the role of sexuality within that conception of American identity, and more importantly, the role of those desires that have been deemed deviant. When Vladimir Nabokov first … [Read more...] about Incest and Innocence