A new trend has emerged in movies over the last few years, one that continues to grow both in popularity and nuance as new directors and crews take their swing at it: the musician biopic. As of 2018 the two major two major examples were Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman focusing on the band Queen and Elton John, respectively. Later this year, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story will release, but before that popular director Baz Lurhman of The Great Gatsby (2013) fame has thrown his hat into the ring with Elvis, starring the titular yet controversial rock ‘n’ roll superstar of the mid-20th century. 

This article contains spoilers for all four seasons of Stranger Things

As season four of the hit show Stranger Things aired in late May of this year, the interesting phenomenon of how various mediums in popular culture are tethered together became more apparent than ever.

The Conjuring came out in Jul. of 2013 to positive critical and audience reception; as a result, the series continued in 2014 with the story of Anabelle the doll, an antagonist of sorts from the first film. Seeing Anabelle in theaters for the first time when I was 12 years old was amazing; I loved everything horror and The Conjuring amassed an even greater love for such stories.

The girls around Mia were giggling, already half changed into their gym clothes. A loud shriek of laughter pulled her gaze from the floor, and she looked around, giving a small smile. She wished she knew what they were laughing about. She always seemed to miss it.

Until now, the oldest novel I’ve written about for Lamron Lit Corner was Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein. As I approach a novel published nearly a full century before that in 1726, I ask myself—what has changed about the world of novels in the last three centuries? 

Well, simply, put, the answer is not too much.

It’s been four long years since JID’s last album. Since his 2018 album DiCaprio 2, we’ve seen the rise of YSL lean sippin’ trap through Lil Baby and Gunna. While the ATL has rebranded since its triplet flow era, JID has remained the Atlanta bar-slinger. With his fast flows and dark wormy beats, JID has perfected his sound through his Dreamville Label. The Forever Story, JID’s newest album, expands on his original sound and introduces a more introspective side of the artist.

Just a little less than a month ago, Taylor Swift took to Twitter to let her fans know that her tenth studio album, Midnights, would be arriving in only five weeks on Oct. 21, 2022. As some Swift fans have noted, 21 reversed is 12, a nod to the themes around time that Swift is aiming for in her newest era.

As Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power hits its third and fourth episodes, the characters and the world seem to be hitting a groove that will hopefully propel it forward. Plotlines are beginning to thicken and become more tangible, characters are becoming more three-dimensional, and the world continues to grow and expand in the same way the original books do as you read them.

While the genre of science fiction is generally believed to find its origins in 1818 with the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, its roots dig far deeper than the 19th century. But, instead of looking that far into the past, let’s instead look to the most recent evolution of the genre: modernism to postmodernism. This conversation, inevitably, will include Phillip K. Dick and his oft-called magnum opus, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.

Dear darling, my child—

When you shed your first moon’s blood and taste the first sweet caress of love’s cavity, be wary, lest you find yourself bound to monstrous horrors made from man, those hungry sucks from lips of sugar can rot the skin and infect the blood. I shall show you, my child, the face of the devil and the markings by which you may be graced to live.

When it comes to studying, music in the background is always my go-to for getting my work done. Even if I end up jamming out and lose a good ten minutes to my own personal drum solo, work gets done faster with it rather than without.

Do you ever find yourself thinking: “Man, I love to write and would like nothing more than to get better at my craft in a setting with like-minded writers, preferably right here in Geneseo, with a focus not only on literary fiction but genre fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry”? Well, you might just need to learn how to stop thinking in run-on sentences!

And also, join the Creative Writing Club!

Despite his long-standing career prior to 1986, Peter Gabriel did not see wide recognition until after the release of his fifth album So in that year. Gabriel was a part of the prog-rock group Genesis since 1969, leaving the band in 1979 to focus on his family and new-born daughter. Many thought that was the last they would see of the oddball lead singer, but Gabriel quickly proved this to be untrue.

For those of you who may not be gamers, The Elder Scrolls games have been redefining the narrative concept of videogames since the early ‘90s. This fantasy game series completely reverses the standard story structure that has been the primary template for entertainment by focusing on side quests and small missions, rather than one major questline with a few side quests here and there. 

The title The Catcher in the Rye is likely one you’ve heard before, even if you’ve never read the novel. J.D. Salinger’s work has become one of the most widely recognized pieces of 20th century literature, up at the top with things like The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird in terms of most-taught books in high school. Despite its stature, how many people actually know what ‘the catcher in the rye’ is? Even those who read the book may find themselves wondering.

Last Saturday, Apr. 23, all of the a cappella groups at SUNY Geneseo performed together for the final all-group concert of the academic year. The concert was titled “Singing in the Rain,” a name selected collaboratively by all five groups.