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More Riffs on Clutter

I read Scott McLemee’s column on clutter yesterday in my office. Administrators refer to the room as the Adjunct Ghetto...

RSS Feed Now Live!

I don't know what that means, but they tell me the kids these days are all crazy for it.

Is Travel a Perk in Your Field?

Having just returned from an academic conference, I know the rigors of professional travel. I boarded the plane in Philly...

"Now is the time..."

When's the last time you listened to the entire "I Have a Dream" speech? Also, here's a site that proposes...

Satire and Violence

Half-baked thoughts, then, toward an AWP presentation that won’t be: Jokes, the good Dr. Freud said famously, are often “hostile.”...

Don't Try Any Funny Stuff

I tried to put a panel session together for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Atlanta this...

A Moral Tale

Once there was a writer for one of America's biggest catalog companies. Perhaps because the young man was a veteran...

When Sentimentality Gets to Good Viewers

A film corollary to my last post, about bad books: The media always reports on how emotionally hard the holidays...