Penny Lane’s The Voyagers created a contextual suggestion which (falsely) narrates a visual metaphor that she was born on the spacecraft. This initial metaphor is sequenced with a love story of the two people related to the Voyagers project, so … Continue reading →

Lia Purpura’s Autopsy Report really plays with the definition of autopsy. The noun itself originates as the ability of seeing with one’s own sight. Purpura uses their childhood experience with their parent’s art to give the autopsy report’s a tethered double meaning. … Continue reading →

“text… is becoming more like video. And video is becoming more like text” -Marilyn Freeman’s On the Form of the Video Essay Editor’s Note. Writing a script for a video is a lot like the theory of audio itself, in … Continue reading →

Music is something that appears to just be sound and words, but really there are no lyrics “we graft beginnings, middles, and ends” (kitchen sisters) “together to use as beds for our stories to lie on”. It is all sound, … Continue reading →

Wheeler’s essay “the Ugly Pew” is performed very aggressively creating a tension that matches the negative tone of the essay beautifully. Over the elapse of the time is a relief of tension that is felt in Wheeler’s insightful reflection of … Continue reading →

Not just literary shenanigans… people can’t easily follow those advanced literature principles… they forget what you’re saying because they only see the half of it. They can easily understand all you’ve got to say if it’s blatantly there to follow … Continue reading →

“On May 8, 1945, 60 million Americans (nearly half all the nation) tuned in to hear On a Note of Triumph, Norman Corwin’s masterpiece marking the beginning of the end of WWII”, that’s ‘break[ing] through the sound barrier” says Porter … Continue reading →

I found Susan Orlean’s introduction rather aggressive and unfathomable without the visible cow’s backstory; however this gets me to come further into her words. I found that essays are supposed to be subjective conversations, where if you have a view … Continue reading →

For Sara Levine, as a reader, we “leave the essay feeling as if [we] have met somebody” (159), however this is an understatement. Leslie Jamison brings the idea of feel, to an entirely new level, one that left me feeling … Continue reading →

Benson’s theory of the essay holds a peculiar esquire, a sense of moral that subtly critical and scarce sympathetic towards humanity’s faults. He believes that the essay, “must care more about the inconsistencies of humanity than about its dignity” (Pg … Continue reading →