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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...
A Map of the Known Book World
One of the drawbacks of being in the English Department of a big research university is the climate of machismo...
Eponymous Me
Some experiences don’t last long enough for satisfaction. You know what I’m talking about—cream soda numbs the tongue to its...