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Tag: Alyssa Jingling
Alyssa Jingling is a second-year English Student and eighth-year Austinite. When she’s not listening to Broadway showtunes or reading some pretentious post-modernist novel, you can find her cooking vegan food or snuggling her dog. She also loves writing poetry inspired by her long commute on public transportation and designing costumes for films.
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As you know from the many opening lines in the many emails you’ve received, the world is a confusing and often-frightening place to live in right now. In the long tradition of turning towards stories to temporarily escape the chaos around us, the Hothouse staff has compiled some of our favorite works that provide us…
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Kylie: plus i think it’s so funny we’re discussing the message of communication in IJ….over chat Alyssa: honestly? Dave would love this Kylie: ladies n gentlemen….we got em
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Written by Alyssa Jingling In college, I have found that if a book isn’t by a dead white man or hasn’t been critiqued by James Wood, it’s typically not read. Young adult novels on the class syllabus? No way.
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One hundred pages of an old man who sits in a little boat in the sea, trying to catch one fish. That’s it, that’s the plot!
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“I’m surprised you’re not analyzing Daddy,” my poetry professor, Dr. D’Arcy Randall, said as we discussed my Sylvia Plath research project. “So much of your poetry is based around your family struggles.”
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From the characters, to the sets, to the body language and movement, and even to the actors’ individual expressions—the entire story that was once confined to a page unfolds in a multi-sensory experience from the seats of a theatre.
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