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#PitMad is Today!
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Today is the #PitMad event on Twitter. If you are unfamiliar with #PitMad, it is a Twitter event where authors post pitches for their completed manuscripts including the hashtag #PitMad. Agents and publishers watch the feed and favorite the tweets for manuscripts they are interested in. Authors then visit the feed of the…
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March Movie Review: “Kingsman: The Secret Service”
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Let me start off this review by saying I love action movies. And I mean love love. Gladiator is one of my favorite films, and I’d choose an action flick over a romantic comedy any day. (Confession time: I love action comedies even more. Put Rowan Atkinson in a James Bond…
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Book Summary: Bombay in the Age of Disco
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By the early nineties, India’s economy had taken its first faltering steps towards liberalization, and globalization’s reach had found and touched significant swathes of its society. The decades-long post-independence era of Nehru and Gandhi was finally and firmly over, and Bombay had become Mumbai. Bombay in the Age of Disco…
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Being an English Major. . .
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When I tell people I’m an English major, I usually get the same three standard statements or questions, and I’m sure most of you other English majors know what I mean. (1). “What are you going to do with that degree?” The first question is usually said in a demeaning…
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Health Benefits of Reading
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Did you know that March is National Reading Month? Let’s celebrate this awesome month by looking at the ways reading can positively affect our health! Reading gives your brain a workout.Our minds are passive when we watch TV, but when we read, they are actively involved. Pick up a book to…
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The Inn at Traveler’s Rest
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The first structure on Traveler’s Rest’s land was a small cabin, built shortly after the Revolutionary War by Major Jesse Walton. Walton received the land surrounding the Tugaloo Crossroads, including a ford and creek that were later named Walton’s Ford, as a grant from the U.S. government. After his death,…
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Interview with Tinaz Pavri, Author of Bombay in the Age of Disco
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An interview highlighting our newest author, Tinaz Pavri and her book Bombay in the Age of Disco. Keep an eye out for its release this spring! 1. In a brief summary describe your transition from India to the United States? I came to the U.S. for graduate school in Ohio.…
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Traveler’s Rest: A History in Asides
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Coming Soon: Traveler’s Rest and the Tugaloo Crossroads by Robert Eldridge Bouwman Bouwman tells Traveler’s Rest’s story through the lives of its residents and their neighbors. The focus of the history mainly rests on the white early American settlers. A compelling story lives in the margins of the history, however, that…