When I began my freshman year at USF as a double major in journalism and English, I didn’t give much thought to the latter; it was just my “back-up” degree. What started as an afterthought turned into one of the best decisions of my life: the poetry and plays that I had heretofore deemed as pedantic and overwrought (in my infinite teenage wisdom) now held a new fascination. Eugene O’Neill’s semi-autobiographical, Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play, Long Day’s Journey Into Night was the first to immerse me in this new literary euphoria, and you can see it onstage at
This article appears in Jan 13-19, 2010.
