As we all know, expectations can be crippling. Success breeds expectations for more success and higher, sometimes unfair, scrutiny can be placed upon a person. This scrutiny can be debilitating, and after an acclaimed bestseller – well, what do you write next? Last year, J.K. Rowling published her first book since the finale of Harry […]

The Wake and the Wound: J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy
None of them was Barry. He had been a living example of what they proposed in theory…Did they not see what hopeless advocates they were, compared to the man who had died? Though there was a lot of buzz amongst Potter fans about the release of a new J.K. Rowling book—one written exclusively for adults—there […]