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Monday, November 14, 2022
Dear reader, one of my academic nightmares finally came true. A few weeks ago, one of my classes had an assignment that required us to come up with pitches for an upcoming presentation in groups of four and present them in front of a small group of... More
Thursday, September 22, 2022
As I entered the final days of my summer job, I said private goodbyes to my least favourite parts of food service. Goodbye to the flies in the maintenance room. Goodbye to the loft from which the managers could assess our work efficiency at any... More
Thursday, March 31, 2022
The Department of English’s student blogger for 2021-22, Noah Bendzsa, has just published a new post, “Shocks In a Clown-Shaped Box.” Noah’s latest post ponders the qualities of Stephen King’s novel It. What makes the novel worth reading, in Noah’s estimation, might surprise you. You can read the post... More
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
In their latest post, Department of English student blogger Noah Bendzsa takes inspiration from Wes Anderson’s latest film The French Dispatch and poses two challenges to readers. Check out “Fifteen-Minute Intermission” on the FASS... More
Monday, January 24, 2022
The 2021-22 student blogger for the Department of English, Noah Bendzsa, has published a new blog post, “The Novelist’s Novelist, the Filmmaker’s Novelist.” Noah’s latest post explores his complicated love for movie writers––“not screenwriters but movie characters who are writers, especially those who have failed to live up to... More
Friday, November 12, 2021
Would you believe… that I actually exclaimed “Ah-ha!” when I thought that I’d spotted an error in The New Yorker? I was out in public, and I’m sure my reaction would have drawn looks, if I hadn’t been in a parked car in an LCBO parking lot. (I was waiting for a friend.) The apparently offending... More
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
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