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Spread the great news! If you were hesitant to join our staffing team but still want to be involved in a creative community, feel free to contact us! We will be planning a general meeting soon!! Link in the bio! (at LSU) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpXIzJvHAkJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14hw0bam31xt5

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A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (via bookmania)

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Part one. It’s up there now for streaming. (Part two goes out tomorrow.) If you are sad, this will make you happier.

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Evening Delta Fans! I hope you’re all enjoying your winter break, and if you’re like me that means you’ve gotten the opportunity to read a book or two. Recently I finished listening to the audiobook of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, and I have to tell you, I loved it! 

Wade Watts narrates the story, detailing his own epic quest to find billionaire video game designer James Halliday’s “Easter Egg” - a secret item planted within the designer’s most elaborate game, The Oasis: a virtual reality system that has become integral to the everyday lives of people all over the world, just thirty years into the future. Whoever finds the Egg inherits the contents of Halliday’s extensive will, including a share in GSS, the company that runs The Oasis. But finding the Egg is no easy task: in order to earn to the grand prize, the egg hunter, or “gunter,” has to solve Halliday’s riddles to find three keys, each leading to a gate with a mystery task related to Halliday’s obsession, the 1980s. After five years of research, Wade finally makes a breakthrough, becoming the first gunter to find the first of the three keys, and effectively placing him at the top of the “scoreboard” located on Halliday’s website. However, this not only makes him famous, but puts him in danger as well, and as his adventure unfolds readers discover that finding the egg could change not only Wade’s fate, but also the world.

I would love some recommendations from you all, or even to hear your opinions on Ready Player One! I hope you’re all working on submissions for the spring as well, and I look forward to reading them for myself - but for now I’m happy to sit back, relax, and enjoy a good book :)

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Pick up a copy of the newest issue of @digbatonrouge for a piece on our beloved reading series!

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Ship of Fools closing out the show with a bang. (at Lagniappe Records)

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Happening right now! (at Lagniappe Records)

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Party starts Saturday at 8 on 705 St. Joseph St.

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Today's the Louisiana Book Festival! Come visit us (and Helmut) at the LSU English Dept table.

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raffle prize ready to go | Saturday, 327 Bedford Drive, 9 p.m.

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Do you like indie films? Erotic poetry? Alcohol? Held at the film location for the 1989 classic "sex, lies and videotape," this party will have it all. $5 at the door. $1 more enters you into a raffle for an unopened VHS of the movie. Proceeds to benefit Delta Journal. Come dance and read poetry with us (and pick up a free condom or two while you're at it). Saturday!

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We still have a whole apple pie and other goodies for sale at the Ogden Park Prowl! Our booth is at 345 Bedford. #deltapastries

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Happy late birthday to fiction editor Nick Molbert! We're out at 345 Bedford Avenue selling homemade apple pie, cupcakes and notebooks, along with Delta journals.

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We'll be on Bedford Avenue, selling baked goods and journals. Come out!

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@cshaffrun performing an old favorite at our Highland Coffees Reading.

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We have three readers lined up for tonight, including 2014-2015 poetry editor Sara Ritsch, and Caroline Schaff as our musical guest! Come out and support your local writing/ukulele-jamming community.