Author: Cynthia Petts

Looking at Lolita

The DePaul Humanities Center continues its Making the Novel Novel series this Wednesday, January 20 with a discussion of Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial 1955 novel. Just what is the controversy? The book’s narrator, Humbert Humbert, is a literature professor in his late thirties who has a sexual obsession with his

And the Hippies Came, Thanks to Alumni Publishers

“The objective is simple,” publishing house 7Vientos Press explains on its website: “to promote diversity of cultures by bringing literature previously unavailable in English….7Vientos believes that the publishing platform should be a creative outlet for breaking from the status quo.” “DePaul is never content with the status quo,” writes Edward