Category: Literary Digestion

  • Quick Bites of White Nights

    A digestion of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s White Nights Appetizer Translated by Ronald Meyer, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s White Nights is a short story based in St. Petersburg which narrates the life cycle of a relationship characterized by candid vulnerability. Dense Plot Condensed. Meeting over the course of four nights, the story’s narrator and Nastenka instantly bond over synchronized…

  • Love. Drugs. &Punctuation.

    The skeleton of Barbara Kingsolver’s “Demon Copperhead” is the same as Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield”. Athena born from Zeus’ skull, it’s impossible for “Demon Copperhead” to exist anywhere but the pantheon.