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Georgetown Library Features Book Exhibit for Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month

By Hayley Young September 28, 2023

Georgetown’s Lauinger Library celebrates Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month with an exhibit of books purchased at the International Book Fair of Bogotá (FILBo). The book exhibit, titled “Lecturas...

BETWEEN THE COVERS | When Romance Novels Get Real

BETWEEN THE COVERS | When Romance Novels Get Real

By Melinda Reed April 20, 2022

Every once and a while, the romance genre abandons rom-com fantasy in favor of real, difficult issues. Considering the heightened and increasingly publicized movements like the #MeToo campaign, it...

BETWEEN THE COVERS | Literature’s Unrealistic Male Lead

BETWEEN THE COVERS | Literature’s Unrealistic Male Lead

By Melinda Reed March 30, 2022

Literary male leads are frauds.  Given my dedication to arguing for romance’s legitimacy as a genre, it pains me to criticize it, but I am afraid I have to because literary men are unicorns.  They...

Between the Covers | ‘Attachments’ is the Nora Ephron Romantic Comedy

Between the Covers | ‘Attachments’ is the Nora Ephron Romantic Comedy

By Melinda Reed February 23, 2022

When you read this next sentence, please imagine that I am screaming it from a rooftop or while running down M Street: “Attachments” by Rainbow Rowell is one of the best romantic comedy books —...

Following Backlash, Bezos Requests MLK Library Auditorium Be Named After Toni Morrison

Following Backlash, Bezos Requests MLK Library Auditorium Be Named After Toni Morrison

By Kirit Minhas February 18, 2022

Following backlash from the Washington, D.C., Public Library’s (DCPL) Board of Trustees’ vote to name an auditorium in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (MLK Library) after Amazon founder...

BETWEEN THE COVERS | ‘The Hating Game’ Embodies Literary Romance’s Bad Reputation

BETWEEN THE COVERS | ‘The Hating Game’ Embodies Literary Romance’s Bad Reputation

By Melinda Reed February 2, 2022

I present the following summary of a book: Person A does not like Person B for some minor reason that has blossomed into full, blown-out hatred. Circumstances force them into close quarters — both figuratively...

“The Satanic Verses:” A Misunderstood Masterpiece About Identity, Metamorphosis

“The Satanic Verses:” A Misunderstood Masterpiece About Identity, Metamorphosis

By Ishaan Rai August 31, 2021

“The Satanic Verses,” the 1988 novel by Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie, may be the most controversial book of the modern era. More than 30 years later, the frightening reaction to this...

The Book Class: A Fast Track to Authorship

The Book Class: A Fast Track to Authorship

By Emma Ginsberg and Cameron Newman September 25, 2020

“I’m proud to announce I’m writing a book” is an announcement Georgetown University students might have seen across on their LinkedIn and Facebook feeds numerous times since March, presumably...

Kathryn Baker

NOVEL IDEAS: ‘The Hand That First Held Mine’ Celebrates Feminine Resilience

By Kathryn Baker June 23, 2019

I expected studying abroad to be difficult. I anticipated the homesickness, the fear of awkward social interactions and stressful travel planning. After all, both Georgetown and St. Andrews hosted so many...

What To Do This Summer If You Dont Have an Internship

What To Do This Summer If You Don’t Have an Internship

By Maddie Schwartz and Maddie Schwartz April 12, 2017

So now it's April and you've found yourself without an internship. You're probably asking yourself: what exactly can I do this summer? Well believe it or not, there is plenty more out there than being...

COURTESY MCDONOUGH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
The new “Launching the Venture” course taught by professor Eric Koester allowed students to write and publish books on entrepreneurship.

Business Students’ Books to Be Published

By Paula Hong April 6, 2017

A total of 15 students in the newly offered “Launching the Venture” course in the McDonough School of Business will publish individual books on business and entrepreneurship. Taught by the co-founder...

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The Best Fiction Reads of the Summer

By Jinwoo Chong May 20, 2016

  ‘Barkskins’ – Annie Proulx From the author of the original 1997 short story “Brokeback Mountain” comes an epic 300-year narrative genealogy following two 17th-century Frenchmen...

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