Marcus’ Blog – re: lit, life II
In 1556 a Frenchman by the name of Arnaud Du Tilh entered the town of Artigat claiming to be Martin Guerre, who had absented himself from the region eight years earlier to escape an accusation of... More
Archives: Student Blogs
Marcus’ Blog – re: lit, life I
When I was young – say, around eight or nine – I had terrible insomnia. I wasn’t the kind of elastic kid that stretches and snaps out of their parents’ grip, rubber balling down the hall... More
Marcus’ Blog – Uncle George
The holidays have just rolled past and for most of us that means the carnival of all our extended family have made the rounds as well. And although I don’t want to get into too much personal detail... More
Marcus’ Blog – One Man’s Trash
The dumpster, all tumored with lazily tossed garbage bags, jittered from side to side, as if prepping to explode. A few feet from its open hatch, I stood holding a little nine-inch TV set, with power... More
Marcus’ Blog – Writer’s Festival
Joshua Ferris’ first novel Then We Came To The End was exactly the kind of over-clever (it’s written in the first-person-plural, as in: We roll our eyes at the debut novelists anxious bid for... More
Marcus’ Blog – A note to new undergrads
Marcus Creaghan is a fourth year English student who shares some of his thoughts and experiences in FASS blog entries here I never really get any better at the full-court press of a new fall... More
Second Term
It’s second term again. I know this because the -20 degree weather is charitably distributing free botox to the scarf-less. Most English majors are experiencing a relaxing calm. We’re past the... More
Marcus’ Blog -Second Term
It’s second term again. I know this because the -20 degree weather is charitably distributing free botox to the scarf-less. Most English majors are experiencing a relaxing calm. We’re past the... More
Now. No, Now…Okay, Now.
This is dumb, all I have to do is stand up and leave. I stay seated. My fellow students, at some point in your academic career chances are that you’ll have to leave a classroom mid-lecture. This is... More
Meet Marcus Creaghan by Marcus Creaghan
As my first blog post I thought I’d interview myself just to give the impression that there is actually a human being on the other side of all this. Here it goes: Q: So how long have you been at... More