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A Literary Magazine

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June 8th, 2018, 2:00pm

Highlighted Features

Could Have Sworn Projects and Initiatives

Reviews

Recent and distant works in a variety of media, toward the present, reviewed.

Top Tens

Rankings of works ranging from imagined topographies to olfactory judgements.

Podcasts

A series of recordings, each of which launches a news podcast scenario FYC.

Site-Specific Readings

A Storymap locating video recordings of readings across UCLA.

A Syllabus

A Google document organizing research and the literary environment online.

Summer Reads

Selected works for summer reading, from menu samplers to beach reads.

A SPOTIFY Playlist

A collectively compiled Soptify playlist: what we're listening to.

A Research Library

A research library of print on demand books compiled for further research.

Featured Writers

Avatars for emerging writers, each with a range of social media presences.

COULD HAVE SWORN AT WORK

EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF LITERARY PERFORMANCE & PUBLIC SPACE at ucla

Featured Writers

An in depth look at three emerging writers

Haru Valencia

Instapoet

INSTA 81%
SENSITIVITY 97%

Tlly Jmra

Lawyer & Author

ECO ACTIVISM 98%
CROSS SPECIES TRANSLATION 100%

Topher

DANISH STUDENT

DATING APPS 85%
HAIKU 91%

Interleave Collective Remix: A Small Collection of Beginnings

Collective Interleave Remix is a small collection of beginnings, compiled by Could Have Sworn on Friday the 13th, 2018.

Each line draws from a previously composed work, taken together the book presents a sampled and rearranged portrait of the Could Have Sworn editorial collective.

Tlly Jmra’s review of Mourning Dove$ “Not Your Passenger”

Many people still do not accept that it is possible…

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All Dogs (Should) Go to Heaven: A Review of Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs” (2018)

 A film about dogs in a dystopian setting that exudes…

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Review of Sam Allingham’s “The Intermediate Class”

STUDENT’S INSTRUCTOR EVALUATION FORM Course Name: The Intermediate Class Instructor:…

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The Words Go On: A Review of László Krasnahorkai’s “Wandering-Standing” by Kalena Tamura

THE WORDS GO ON A Review of Lászlo Krosnahorkai’s “Wandering-Standing”…

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Review of Yiyun Li’s “A Flawless Silence”

For every liberal female college student, the Fall of 2016…

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“my own private Idaho”: A Review of Danny Wilson’s Wanton Fury

Courtesy of BookRix “my own private Idaho”: A Review of…

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CHS RESEARCH LIBRARY

PRINT ON DEMAND COMPILATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH

Could Have Sworn This Was a Top Ten

Top 10 Best-Smelling Books

Top 10 Best-Smelling Books (That Are Currently On My Shelf…

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Top Ten Apps for Free Creative Inspiration

Ideas for stories come from a myriad of different sources,…

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Top 10 Young Adult Novels Adapted from Classics

(1) Falling for Hamlet by Michelle Ray (2011) Source Text:…

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Ten TV Comedies You May Not Have Paid Attention to But Definitely Should

You’re the Worst   Gretchen: Day drinking is the best!…

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The Top Ten Moments That Make Bon Iver’s “22, A Million” A Semiotic Masterpiece

When Bon Iver released 22, A Million, in September of…

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Top 10 Books I Started Reading but Didn’t Finish

1) Rosemary Hennessy’s Profit and Pleasure: I borrowed this book last…

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Top 10 Anime Openings

10. “History Maker” from Yuri on Ice 2016 was a rough…

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