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MFA = MBA?
I may have the best deal in all of adjunctdom. My teaching load is 3/3, and I have full health...
Tricks of the Trade
When I was accepted to grad school, I had a big problem: In order to get my fellowship, I’d have...
For Your Consideration
For those who don't know, I write somewhat regular dispatches for McSweeney's Internet Tendency. There's a new one up today...
Like Nails on a Chalkboard
It’s old news that many libraries suffer for lack of money. After September 11th, Hinterland’s investment portfolio tanked with the...
Writing as Warning
Some of you have written to ask how I, a writing teacher, feel about the creative writing connection in the...
Recent news
Our deepest sympathies go to those at Virginia Tech and their families. Violence on any campus is an attack on...
What Tom Knows
This is the second interview in a series. Two years ago I had an e-mail from another adjunct on campus...
From the Department of Oh My
Robert Olen Butler’s recent writing-advice book, From Where You Dream, warns of the difficulties of being a literary artist instead...