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The Unlikelihood of Fathers
I didn’t grow up with a father, so my two sons have exactly as much experience with actual fatherhood as...
No, Not Really
In order to halt growing criticism (covered by Inside Higher Ed and the New York Times) of their ranking of...
Mrs. McSweeney
I was plucked by McSweeney’s Internet Tendency from gray anonymity and propelled onto the glamorous stage of Internet pseudonymity...
Happy Bloomsday
Today is the annual worldwide celebration of Leopold Bloom’s adventures around Dublin in 1904. So set down your ashplant, hoist...
What Jim Knows
We finished reading for the AP exam in Louisville on Saturday, and I’m home now. But before I left, I...
Analysis
Some of you were curious if the man in the slideshow in my previous post is me. Alas, no. That’s...
And Why Not?
Sometimes, when you've finished reading 56,000 exams, you have to take a break and go see a big concrete chicken...
Of Sameness
Here was my day, in a sentence: “The past of the character greatly contributes to the meaning of the novel...