One Girl…Two Countries: Estelle McDoniel By: Hannah Johnson BGSU grad and author Estelle McDoniel shares her experience via email in writing her biography One Girl…Two Countries, a tale of another BGSU grad, Terry, and her experience between the United States and...
Falcon Four: Four reading recommendations for Pride Month 2026 By: Hannah Johnson Happy Pride Falcons! Whether you aren’t too familiar with LGBTQ+ fiction, don’t know where to start, or are just looking for more writers and books to pick up in the LGBTQ+ sphere, here...
Underground- Haruki Murakami By: Hannah Johnson It had been a typical morning in Tokyo. It was a Monday, March 20, 1995, spring just beginning to blossom, as commuters boarded the city’s subway cars. Then, holes were poked into bags of sarin gas, sarin twenty-six...
Falcon Four: Four poetry tips and recommendations for National Poetry Month 2026 By: Hannah Johnson Happy April Falcons! April is National Poetry Month and whether you’re a seasoned poetry reader or looking to explore the artform for the first time, poetry has...
A Thousand Acres- Jane Smiley By: Hannah Johnson “But now I saw with fresh conviction that it was us, all of us, who were failing, and the hallmark of our failure was the way we ate with our heads down, hungrily, quickly, because there was nothing else to do at the...
Lapvona- Ottessa Moshfegh By Hannah Johnson “‘Don’t worry,’ Marek said. ‘Death is not the end. You shall rise. What are the birds but angels? You will never have to walk among the monsters. It’s much better up there. You’ll see, you’ll see. You will be so happy and...
Falcon Four: Four ways to declutter your spring reading By: Hannah Johnson Happy March Falcons! Spring is rapidly approaching, and with that comes the time for spring cleaning. Spring cleaning presents a great opportunity not just for cleaning your house, but to...
Swimming in the Dark- Tomasz Jedrowski By Hannah Johnson “I adored this book more than you knew,” it read there in your stocky, right-leaning script. “I wanted to keep it…but it’s yours. Bring it back one day if you can. I’ll be here. J.” Swimming in the Dark is a...
Gone Before You Knew Me: An Interview By Hannah Johnson BGSU alumni Renate Wildermuth, who obtained her masters in German from BGSU, sat down to talk about her young adult novel Gone Before You Knew Me, releasing on February 24, and talk about the complicated...
Beach Read- Emily Henry By Hannah Johnson “She learned to let it out, bit by bit, and that sometimes, it was okay to let a little ugliness into your story. That it would never rob you of all the beauty.” Beach Read is a seamless blend of “enemies to lovers” and...
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