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AWP, Part 5
The AWP is wrapping up today, and we’ll be jumping on a train later tonight, but I wanted to get...
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AWP 4: Even Rorys Get Their Day
My colleague Rory did an astonishingly competent job yesterday serving as moderator for the tribute to William Gass, sponsored by...
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AWP, Part 3
There was a small incident ten minutes into today’s AWP panel “Shameless Promotion: Get the Book to the Readers.” It...
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AWP, Part 2
Here's a pre-recorded version of the nonfiction reading I did today at AWP. Parts of it have appeared in different...
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Joe, Mauricio, and the Public Trust
Economic turmoil, change in Washington and demographic shifts make this an ideal time to rethink the way colleges recruit and admit students, write Jerome A. Lucido and Morton Owen Schapiro.
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Moving Targets
This week I've been a part of some very difficult conversations on campus about budget cuts and their implications for...
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Childish things, and the putting away thereof
Today is, as we've all been informed ad nauseum, the 200th anniversary of the births of both Abraham Lincoln and...
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Math Geek Mom: What do the Numbers Mean?
By now we have all heard the numbers telling us how large the stimulus package will be that we hope...