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A new correspondent -- and apparently the kind of student we'd all like to have -- writes: As a student...

A new correspondent writes: I am a new department chair. The staff love to decorate for any and all holidays...

Search Committee Chair: The job starts next semester. Can you do that? Candidate: No problem! Rarin' to go! Woo-hoo! (skip...

[ Recently I asked writer, editor and teacher Dinty W. Moore to join the conversation on teaching creative writing, and...

Picking up on the premodern vs. modern theme of yesterday's post, Grad School Friend (who is on the tenure track...

Norman Mailer has won England's annual Bad Sex Award, posthumously, for a passage in one of his last novels. Here's...

"It's like when someone says plate. And then someone says shrimp. And then someone says plate of shrimp .... It's...

My guest today is John Warner, editor of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, a man who once took a chance on a...