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For those who don't know, I write somewhat regular dispatches for McSweeney's Internet Tendency. There's a new one up today...

It’s old news that many libraries suffer for lack of money. After September 11th, Hinterland’s investment portfolio tanked with the...

Some of you have written to ask how I, a writing teacher, feel about the creative writing connection in the...

Our deepest sympathies go to those at Virginia Tech and their families. Violence on any campus is an attack on...

This is the second interview in a series. Two years ago I had an e-mail from another adjunct on campus...

Robert Olen Butler’s recent writing-advice book, From Where You Dream, warns of the difficulties of being a literary artist instead...

My wife and I will soon open part of our home as Churm House, an inn for wayward academics. When...

We have a brilliant young scholar friend whose critical mind won’t rest. Last summer he performed a Marxist critique of...