English Major’s Junk Food guest Ash Bruxvoort, 2/7/2010
February 7th’s full show: Listen here!
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Ms. Bruxvoort is an English Major, an embellished English Major. She uses a blog to challenge herself to continue reading outside of class-assigned literature. Through English Major’s Junk Food, she has found blog-friends and followers who share her love for Victorian literature and children’s books. Her blog resembles like a classroom, complete with a weekly schedule, or daily theme, and a grading system. Ms. Bruxvoort participates in different literary events like National Novel Writing Month in November; the goal is to write a 50,000 word novel by midnight on November 30, or about 1,666 words a day. She signs herself up for Read-A-Thons, like reading for 24 hours straight (she made it 22 hours awake, 14 hours reading.) Find other challenges on her blog under “2010 Challenges.”
Ash reads from The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
Ms. Bruxvoort discussed how important it is to be an active English major, specifically, volunteering with programs like America Reads. She also edits non-fiction for Earthwords among other volunteering.
Blogging, Ms. Bruxvoort says, is not just an ambitious pastime, but she will showcase her blog as a portfolio on internship resumes, specifically for a magazine publishing company in Des Moines this summer. She has met good friends, national and international, and shares her University of Iowa English Major experience with the world. Check out what this “enterprising English major” is doing!
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
Next week
We will hopefully feature the GLBTAU writers to the show to talk about their group.
Also
Listen next week for some new “bits” like inspiring bathroom graffiti from around campus! Good idea? We will find out…
Here is a sneak peek at what our new program assistant, Nicholas Lecnar, has already collected:
Why do so many people shit with pens?
Deaf tones
Believe in Evilution
NYLiterati Weekly Music Pick
J’ai Deux Amours by Madeleine Peyroux
We are Beautiful, We are Doomed by Los Campesinos!
Thank you for gracing us with your presence Ash,
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