Tag Archives: Jenna Sauber

“I read it in a book”: Building a Literary-Inspired Bucket List

Perhaps you have an ongoing bucket list or life list of all the things you [...]

American Authors as Activists

The controversial and historic election of reality star and billionaire businessman Donald Trump to the [...]

Literary Libations and Eats

As a kid reading some of my favorite books, I yearned not only the clothing [...]

A Recommendation for Rereading

I am someone who is always buying new books or asking for them at birthdays [...]

Common Threads: Stories of Female Friendship

We are living in an age where female friendship is “in” – between Taylor Swift’s [...]

Reading Writers’ Letters & Diaries: What’s the Draw?

When we are young, our diaries and journals are filled with the silly and the [...]

The Rise of Hamilton

If you haven’t heard about the little show about a Founding Father that started out [...]

At Home With Hemingway

In the middle of summer on the beautiful campus of Dominican University in Oak Park, [...]

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Pioneer Girl, Prolific Woman

My introduction to Laura Ingalls Wilder was a used copy of The Long Winter when [...]

New Works by Classic American Authors Lead to Excitement and Disappointment

Nearly a year before Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman was released in July 2015, [...]