On Halloween, instead of trick-or-treating with my friends, I was finishing my NaNoWriMo story outline.
NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, an annual online challenge that attracts hundreds...
When I went to see The Perks of Being a Wallflower, I expected the typical high school coming-of-age film. The movie did have many qualities relating to that genre—a quirky main character, disastrous...
J.K. Rowling has shelved the epic magic of Hogwarts in favor of a small English town whose biggest problem is whether to redraw the district line.
Rowling’s newest novel, The Casual Vacancy, takes place...
'Gangam Style'- PSY’s new song, "Gangnam Style" has caused a massive rise in the popularity of Korean pop music (K-pop). Due to the song’s catchy tune and entertaining music video, "Gangnam Style"...
What to eat, wear, work, read or who to marry are all choices that most people can make for themselves every day. Ally Condie’s novel Matched explores a society where these choices are made for everyone...
Hundreds of eager fans are looking forward to March 23—the day the long-awaited movie adaption of The Hunger Games finally releases—including plenty at CHS. The trilogy of books has gained a large...
Parents could easily put together a long list of complaints regarding their kids’ undesired habits and behaviors these days. There’s the classic texting-under-the-table epidemic, and then the bringing-home-boyfriend-with-nose-piercings-and-tattoos...
Politics and Prose, the Washington D.C. bookstore that has been a haven of book-buying and author meet-and-greets for 25 years, was bought by former Washington Post editors Lissa Muscatine and Bradley...
He knew us best and he managed to capture the unique stage of “teenagerdom” in a crude, colloquial prose that has never been matched.
The literary world lost a prized member as J.D. Salinger passed...
By Remi Forster: Business Manager/
Christina Zhang: Photo Editor
• October 28, 2009
One year ago movie theaters were packed with obsessed and screaming fans, paparazzi and excitement. The movie version of the extremely popular book had lived up to its name.
America had not seen anything...
